Senior Researcher in Machine Learning: People-Centric AI

Microsoft
Cambridge, England
9 months ago
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Job Description

Overview

We are seeking Senior Machine Learning Researcher candidates for our research in the area of People-Centric AI at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK). The successful candidate will be responsible for pushing the state of the art in machine learning to enable human agency and skill, support creativity and collaboration, and ensure equitable representation and participation. Key machine learning challenges that we aim to address include, but are not limited to, human-in-the-loop learning, uncertainty quantification, value alignment, interpretability, fairness and bias mitigation, as well as related areas.

People-Centric AI is a multi-disciplinary effort to develop knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences by blending research disciplines, design, and engineering. In this role, you will be formulating a machine learning research agenda based on human needs within this space. For us, success means novel machine learning insights and approaches that support AI experiences to empower all people while preserving and enhancing human capability and connection.AI experiences to empower all people while preserving and enhancing human capability and connection.

We encourage applications from all candidates who are excited to tackle the deep challenges in People-Centric AI, including but not limited to those with backgrounds in deep learning, foundation models, generative AI, com...

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