The Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) Group at Microsoft Research seeks a Senior Research Software Engineer specializing in one or more areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Machine Learning (ML) systems, and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

The position involves working closely with ML systems researchers to build and advance state-of-the art open-source AI infrastructure and improving the efficiency and scalability of production systems across the full AI model lifecycle: pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement-learning-based post-training, and inference. The role emphasizes advanced software development and collaboration with a diverse team of computer scientists and engineers.

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