Join the AI Platform - Core AI organization and help bridge cutting‑edge AI research with real‑world engineering. As part of Azure AI Knowledge group, we build Document Intelligence capabilities that semantically structure documents for intelligent processing across traditional scenarios (RPA, search indexing, compliance and security, creative workflows) and modern LLM‑based applications (RAG, agent memory). 

As a Senior Research Software Development Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership at the research–product boundary: partner with product teams to formulate requirements as modeling problems, co‑invent multimodal methods with leading researchers, and independently turn prototypes into robust, production‑ready solutions used by customers worldwide. You’ll deepen your expertise in business understanding, multimodal modeling, and scalable systems while shipping production AI. 

You’ll shape innovations in document layout and structure analysis from early exploration through deployment - our models process billion level pages across cloud services and edge devices, and your work will directly power these experiences. Your impact will ensure Microsoft’s latest advances in Document AI land in products and sustain our pace of innovation. We hope you combine independent thinking with openness to diverse ideas, lead by example with strong hands-on skills, ground decisions in data and rigorous experimentation, move with urgency and iterate quickly in a fast‑changing technology landscape, pursue technical excellence with enthusiasm, and tackle big challenges with curiosity and resilience. 

Join the team that is on a mission to empower people through AI in everyday document tasks.