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Postdoc: AI Efficiency & Scalable Systems Residency

📍 Location
cambridge
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 31, 2026

About the Role

We are looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to join us as part of a two-year AI Residency Program in Cambridge, UK. This is a close collaboration between M365 Research and The Cloud Infrastructure team in Microsoft Research to advance the state of the art in AI efficiency.

Generative AI is revolutionizing how we create, share, work with, and consume content. At Microsoft, we run the biggest platform for collaboration and productivity in the world with hundreds of millions of consumer/enterprise users. Tackling AI efficiency challenges is crucial for delivering these experiences at scale.

Within our Microsoft wide Systems Innovation initiative, we are working to advance efficiency across AI systems, where we look at novel designs and optimizations across AI stacks: models, AI frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and hardware.

We believe that dramatic improvements to cloud-scale AI/ML systems can be enabled by automatic tools supporting their development and depl...

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