Senior Researcher - AI Agents - Microsoft Research

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WA, United States
Full-time
Posted June 17, 2026

Job Description

**Overview**

**Microsoft Research (MSR)** ** ** **AI Frontiers**  is inviting applications for a  **Senior Researcher** to join our team.

At MSR AI Frontiers, we pursue ambitious research to advance AI in areas such as modeling, algorithms, agents, and agentic systems. We foster a vibrant environment for multidisciplinary work with an open publication policy, close ties to leading academic institutions, and a commitment to impact beyond research. We regularly release open-source models, libraries, and tools to accelerate community progress, while also working within Microsoft’s ecosystem to ship AI technologies across multiple products, ensuring our innovations create real-world value for people.

We are seeking exceptional candidates to advance the state-of-the-art in agentic systems and ecosystems. Relevant projects from our lab include agentic systems (e.g., Magentic-UI (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/orca-progressive-learning-from-...