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With a growth mindset, we innovate to empower others, collaborate toward shared goals, and uphold respect, integrity, and accountability-fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.\nThe Azure MultiModal Intelligence (MMI) team drives the development of advanced cognitive services across documents, video, image, and audio, powering scenarios such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), robotic automation processing (RAP), knowledge retrieval, agentic services and many more. Within this broad charter, we are seeking engineers to focus on advancing document intelligence-building best-in-class cloud and on-premises solutions that leverage deep learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) to help businesses automate document processing intelligently with AI.\nCome join a creative and dedicated team of engineers! 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