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Senior Researcher: Machine Intelligence - Theory of Large Language Models
Microsoft • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary
£75k – £123k
Posted
27 October 2026
Work mode
Full-time
Sponsor match
high
Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)
Role overview
Microsoft is hiring a Senior Researcher: Machine Intelligence - Theory of Large Language Models in Cambridge, a full-time scientific & qa role advertised as contract. The advertised salary is £75k – £123k. Microsoft holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.
Overview The Machine Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Cambridge conducts foundational machine learning research across learning algorithms, model architectures, intelligent systems, and efficient AI. We are seeking a Researcher to develop new theoretical foundations for understanding how and why modern machine learning models learn, generalize, and behave. The research may address areas such as training and optimization dynamics, feature and representation learning, the role of architect…
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