Microsoft Research AI Frontiers lab is seeking applications for the position of Senior Creative Technologist in the Research Prototyping Team. 
  
The mission of the AI Frontiers lab is to expand the pareto frontier of AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Some of our projects include work on Small Language Models (e.g. Phi, Orca), and Agentic AI (e.g. AutoGen, OmniParser, Magentic-One, Magentic-UI).  

The goal of the Research Prototyping Team in AI Frontiers is to bridge cutting-edge AI research with real-world applications by embedding research efforts in practical, high-impact scenarios. The team will serve as a conduit between foundational innovation and deployment contexts, ensuring that research questions are grounded in real user needs and that insights from deployment inform future research directions. 

We are looking for a Senior Creative Technologist with a solid foundation in both Design and Software Development, who is user-centric, creative, and comfortable working in a high-paced, innovative environment with highly technical research teams. 

The AI Frontiers lab offers a vibrant environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary, research, including access to diverse, real-world problems and data, opportunities for experimentation and real-world impact, an open publication policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world.

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