Multimodal Data Research Engineer & Dataset Architect

Microsoft Schweiz GmbH; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 110.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Microsoft Schweiz GmbH in Zürich is seeking a Data Research Engineer to join our AI team, building foundation models across text, image, video, and audio. You will curate, analyze, and evaluate diverse data sources to train and evaluate models, and develop data collection strategies and scalable pipelines.

You will collaborate with Safety, Ethics, and Governance teams to ensure data quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices, and you will work on multimodal datasets at scale with a strong

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's Degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related field.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with distributed data-processing frameworks such as Spark, Ray and workflow-orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Experience with processing datasets at many petabyte scale and with trillion rows.
• Experience building datasets for training foundation models.
• Strong experience in data analysis, data engineering, or both.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and effectively to research, engineering, and product teams.
• Experience evaluating dataset quality and measuring the impact of data through controlled model-training experiments.

Aufgaben

• Create high-quality datasets for training and evaluation; run experiments on new datasets (data ablations) to assess their impact and determine the most effective data
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for data ingestion, pre-processing, filtering, and annotation
• Analyse real-world multimodal datasets to assess quality, diversity, relevance, and identify areas for improvement
• Build tools and workflows for dataset auditing, visualization, and versioning
• Collaborate with Safety, Ethics, and Governance teams to ensure datasets meet standards for quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices

Kenntnisse

Python

Data analysis

Data engineering

Model evaluation

Technical communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spark

Ray

Airflow

Jobbeschreibung

Microsoft Schweiz GmbH in Zürich is seeking a Data Research Engineer to join our AI team, building foundation models across text, image, video, and audio. You will curate, analyze, and evaluate diverse data sources to train and evaluate models, and develop data collection strategies and scalable pipelines.

You will collaborate with Safety, Ethics, and Governance teams to ensure data quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices, and you will work on multimodal datasets at scale with a strong