Posted:
June 10, 2026
Location:
Redmond, WA, United States

Job Description

**Overview**

The **AI Frontiers** lab at **Microsoft Research** is charted with ambitious research goals for advancing **Artificial Intelligence (AI** ) capabilities in several key areas including modeling, algorithms, reasoning and agentic AI. Our lab offers a vibrant environment for cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, including an open publication policy and close links to top academic institutions around the world.

This Principal Research Engineer position is a unique opportunity to contribute towards tackling some of the hardest and most rewarding challenges in AI. You will help develop novel ideas in bleeding edge reinforcement learning research as well as help evolve our pre-training, mid-training, and post-training codebases that gave birth to famous models such as Phi establishing many new records. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers across many disciplines to help advance the state of the art in reasoning and agentic AI.

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Redmond, United States
Posted: June 10, 2026
Deadline: June 15, 2026