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Senior Language Engineer

Microsoft· Applied Sciences
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Language Engineer to help build Copilot capabilities, collaborating with data scientists, AI researchers, engineers, designers, and product managers to improve Large Language Models powering Copilot. The role focuses on prompting, evaluation, data-driven improvements, and managing project delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Craft and refine the context and prompts used to steer, train and evaluate the language models that power Microsoft Copilot for emotional and intellectual use cases.
  • Create evaluations and establish evaluation frameworks to measure both technical/practical performance and non-deterministic performance like EQ
  • Research & implement novel prompting techniques
  • Spin the data flywheel to extract insights from extensive language datasets to uncover issues and opportunities to improve model response quality.
  • Accountable to own the status of key projects, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions to ensure timely delivery.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Literature, or related discipline AND 1+ years experience in context engineering with foundational software engineering knowledge.
  • 3+ years experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities, and adapting to changing requirements and deadlines.
  • Hands-on experience with prompt design, context window management, and model evaluation.

Skills

Required:Prompt designContext engineeringModel evaluation

Benefits

  • benefits information available per location (not specified in description)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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