Description
Microsoft Research Americas is hiring a Principal Research Engineer to lead hands-on work across foundation-model pretraining, continued pretraining, fine-tuning, and post-training. The role focuses on improving model quality, designing controlled experiments and evaluations, diagnosing training issues, developing reusable research practices, scaling approaches across GPU clusters, and providing technical direction and mentorship. It is based in Redmond, Washington, with three days per week in the office, and offers a base salary of USD 142,800–274,800 per year.
