Cambridge Residency Program: Researcher On Large

2 months ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Microsoft Full time

We invite early-career researchers to join our two-year postdoctoral residency programme in the Calc Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used end-user programming technology and the definitive low-code and no-code platform. The recent success of
**large language models** (LLMs) creates an opportunity to take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what end-users can do with spreadsheets.

**Responsibilities**:

- Devise, build, and evaluate end-user programming experiences driven by LLMs.
- Evaluate and benchmark underlying prompt strategies and engineering.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Write, present, and publish your research in technical documents or research papers.
- If appropriate, collaborate closely with product teams to transfer code and concept

**Qualifications**:
Required:

- Publications at top research venues in human-computer interaction, machine learning, natural-language processing, programming languages, software engineering, or adjacent areas.
- Completed or on track to a PhD in a technical discipline or have equivalent industrial experience.
- Evidence of ability to translate findings into insights for technical and design impact.
- Experience or interest in doing LLM research.
- Experience or interest in working in the spreadsheet domain.
- Experience of software prototyping in Python or TypeScript at various levels of fidelity, with interactive prototypes preferred.
- Good spoken and written English.
- Enthusiastic to work in a multi-disciplinary team, open to acquiring new skills out of your domain of expertise and be willing to communicate and share ideas in both a technical and non-technical way.

One or more of the following is preferred:

- Experience with research on end-user programming.
- Experience with evaluation and benchmarking of software systems or ML algorithms.
- Experience with mixed-methods user studies.
- Experience with telemetry studies, writing queries against log files.

You will join a prestigious world-leading research laboratory. Microsoft Research in Cambridge has a wealth of experience and expertise in computer vision, HCI, design, machine learning, systems and security, software engineering and programming languages, and has a strong track record of shipping ground-breaking technologies in Microsoft products including Office, Xbox, HoloLens, and Visual Studio.

We offer a competitive salary.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.



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