Microsoft

Principal Research Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond
Salary
$142,800 - $274,800 per year
Level
Principal
Work type
On-site · Washington

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Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

Overview Microsoft Research Americas is seeking a Principal Research Engineer to help advance how foundation models are trained, adapted, evaluated, and improved. You will work with researchers and engineers to turn promising model ideas into reproducible experiments and…

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

PyTorch

Rare in Microsoft's other 299 open postings.

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Python

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The team: Software Engineering NEW TEAM

This team is new: its 107 open roles were posted Jul 2 – Oct 21, and Microsoft had none in it before. You would be one of its first people.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

C++ (102 of 107), C# (100 of 107), Python (100 of 107), Java (97 of 107), C (96 of 107), JavaScript (88 of 107), Azure (64 of 107)

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