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      <Title>Member of Technical Staff, Principal Tech Lead Manager, Image Generation</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We are hiring a Principal Tech Lead Manager to own and grow Copilot&#39;s image generation capabilities. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role at the intersection of frontier model integration, evaluation science, and product quality. The successful candidate will set the technical direction for image generation, lead a team of Applied AI engineers and platform engineers, and drive measurable improvements in image quality, user satisfaction, and first-run success.</p>
<p>Responsibilities:</p>
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<li>Define and own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Copilot image generation , from prompt understanding and model integration to evaluation, quality, and reliability.</li>
<li>Establish architectural best practices for image generation pipelines, including prompt conditioning, safety filtering, multimodal grounding, and user personalization.</li>
<li>Partner with research, product, and infrastructure teams to translate long-horizon vision into executable milestones.</li>
<li>Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for model selection, integration approaches, and evaluation strategy.</li>
<li>Lead the integration, evaluation, and launch of new image generation models and capabilities into Copilot surfaces.</li>
<li>Drive improvements to first-run success rate, image quality, prompt adherence, and overall user satisfaction with generated images.</li>
<li>Build and own the feedback loop from user signals to model and prompt iteration.</li>
<li>Close the loop from production data to systematic improvements.</li>
<li>Identify and resolve failure modes in image generation including safety gaps, quality regressions, prompt misinterpretation, and accessibility issues.</li>
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<p>Qualifications:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bachelor&#39;s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.</li>
<li>Preferred Master&#39;s degree or PHD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of industry experience in applied ML, AI product engineering, or related disciplines.</li>
<li>1+ years managing a team of engineers or data scientists.</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience shipping production AI or ML systems at scale.</li>
<li>Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, including at formal tech lead and senior IC responsibilities.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience building evaluation frameworks or quality systems for AI/ML products.</li>
<li>Track record of driving measurable quality or performance improvements through systematic iteration.</li>
<li>Direct experience with image generation models (diffusion models, GANs, multimodal models, etc.).</li>
<li>Experience building and owning hillclimbing infrastructure for generative AI.</li>
<li>Formal people management experience, including hiring and performance management.</li>
<li>Experience working on consumer AI products with high user visibility and quality bar.</li>
<li>Prior work in responsible AI for generative media, including safety filtering and content policy enforcement.</li>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$139,900 - $274,800 per year</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, AI, Machine Learning, Image Generation, Diffusion Models, GANs, Multimodal Models, Hillclimbing Infrastructure, Generative AI, Responsible AI, Safety Filtering, Content Policy Enforcement</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Microsoft</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/microsoft.ai.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Microsoft is a multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and devices.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://microsoft.ai</Employerwebsite>
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      <Applyto>https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-principal-tech-lead-manager-image-generation/</Applyto>
      <Location>Redmond</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-24</Postedate>
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