Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team · Microsoft AI

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:28:18 GMT
Engineering

Microsoft AI · New York · USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year · onsite

Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team at their New York office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI systems. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI market.

About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team, you will develop algorithms, design model architectures, conduct experiments, champion measurement and evaluation, innovate datasets and data pipelines. You will improve training and deployment efficiency, paying careful attention to detail, persevering, and learning from everyone’s attempts whether successful or not. You will follow a rigorous data-driven approach grounded in meticulous ablation studies and scientific analysis. You will innovate and iterate over ideas, prototypes, and product. You will collaborate closely with teams on infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback. You will advance the AI frontier responsibly. You will embody our culture and values.

Accountabilities

Develop algorithms, design model architectures, conduct experiments, champion measurement and evaluation, innovate datasets and data pipelines.

Improve training and deployment efficiency, paying careful attention to detail, persevering, and learning from everyone’s attempts whether successful or not.

The Candidate we're looking for

Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Technical skills:

Experience with large-scale AI systems — design and deployment of distributed architectures, multimodal or conversational models; proficiency with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and cloud/HPC environments (e.g., Azure).

Expertise in data engineering for foundation models — multimodal dataset design, curation, annotation pipelines, quality evaluation, bias detection, and understanding of privacy, compliance, and Responsible AI principles.

Background in LLM interaction and deployment — practical work in prompt engineering, safety-aligned evaluation, and integration of conversational AI into production systems.

Personal attributes:

Cross-functional collaboration and communication — ability to produce clear technical documentation, partner with engineering, product, and design teams, and contribute to knowledge sharing; demonstrated application of emerging AI technologies and best practices.

Benefits

Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year.

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.