Microsoft Looking For User Experience Designer at Redmond, WA Full Time

Microsoft’s Aether effort (for AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research) has served a central role at Microsoft since its founding in 2016 by providing guidance to the company’s senior leadership on questions, challenges, and opportunities around the responsible development and fielding of AI technologies. Aether partners closely with Microsoft Research (MSR) to deliver leading-edge research on Responsible AI (RAI) and to develop RAI practices and tools that are utilized across Microsoft’s engineering divisions.

We are currently seeking a User Experience designer to partner with MSR researchers in creating concepts and interaction design for RAI tools used by machine learning (ML) practitioners. This is a unique opportunity to work with the latest ML advances (e.g., large-scale language models, computer vision, etc.), create and contribute to open-source software (e.g. InterpretML, FairLearn, etc.), collaborate on Microsoft products reaching hundreds of millions of users, and publish in top academic conferences.

The is a fully remote position, open to anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities

Engage with researchers and research papers to understand the science and ideas behind RAI tooling

Work with researchers to rapidly develop and test design ideas and drive a high-impact agenda operationalizing research ideas into usable and effective systems and tools.

Collaborate with product partners to integrate and test new ideas within existing frameworks and toolchains, as well as develop new end-to-end pipelines and experiences.

Qualifications

2+ years of experience in user experience design or a combination of industry, graduate studies, or equivalent experience.

Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in close collaboration with researchers in academia, a software company or other high-tech environment

Proficiency in user experience design principles, methods, and techniques

Proficiency with interaction design software (e.g., Figma)

Ability to stay current on several key sub-fields of AI: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-AI Collaboration, AI Ethics.

Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and efficiently collaborate with partners to deliver results.

Ability to work on an interdisciplinary team (including design, research, and PMs) with ambiguous and changing specifications.

A degree or publication track record in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, or Human-Computer Interaction is a major plus.

Experience designing tools for use by data scientists and/or software developers is a major plus.

Experience working on issues of ethics and responsibility in relation to AI/ML is a major plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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