Do you have a passion for launching cutting-edge technology? Do you love working with customers inside and outside Microsoft – to help them discover new ways of working with AI, and channel their needs into a first-of-its-kind product? Can you work as an entrepreneur, researcher and a task-master? If so, we'd love to work with you. About us: We are a small, agile team of field-leading researchers and developers in the Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research AI working on the next generation of dialog and conversational technologies. We are developing a platform that enables developers to deploy AI-first conversational systems ("bots"), without any prior training in machine learning. We take a hybrid product/research approach: we put cutting-edge research at the heart of our product, and the data resulting from usage of the product fuels our research. We have deep relationships with multiple product groups, and partner closely to ship. Within Microsoft, our team helps shape company strategy
You will work closely with our partner product/research teams across Microsoft to provide the next generation of tools to build conversational applications. You'll also have opportunities to get to know our customers and get in a tight feedback loop to know we're meeting their needs. Our team culture promotes creativity and innovation and we want your unique ideas. We use engineering best practices and ship rapidly so can quickly address customer needs with excellent experiences. We are a small, high-experience team and are looking for a partner who has experience with ML/NLP and solid coding skills,
Required Qualifications BS in computer science or 6 years professional experience in the technology industry 4+ years of software and/or services development and product delivery experience 3+ years of experience developing client applications 3+ years of experience developing web applications Preferred Qualifications Expertise in at least in one of the following C# .NET, Typescript/JavaScript/NodeJs Solid object oriented design, critical thinking, software debugging and problem solving skills Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and efficiently collaborate with partners to deliver