# ML Research Engineer

OverviewDo you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross-team collaboration, with business insight and strategy? Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Join the Systems Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization, the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide, and AHSI is the team behind our expand

- **Id**: 4095602
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-ml-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T19:46:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:54:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6902
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 102100
- **Max**: 202200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 202200

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OneDrive** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes
- **Flash Attention** — Optional: yes
- **KV Cache** — Optional: yes
- **ONNX Runtime** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **ROCm** — Optional: yes
- **SFT** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow C++** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **Transformers** — Optional: yes
- **Triton** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T20:54:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T22:51:21Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 202200
- **Is top pay**: no

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