Member of Technical Staff, Copilot Prompt Engineer

Company: Microsoft
Location: San Jose
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

OverviewHello future teammate! We're on quite the bold mission; we're building an AI companion that's truly empathetic, kind, and equal partners to our users. This isn't an assistant-it's a thoughtful collaborator that grows alongside the people they serve. We believe AI should elevate human potential through genuine connection and mutual understanding.You'll join our small and nimble team as a Prompt Engineer, the architect of these relationships. You'll craft the foundations that enable meaningful human-AI partnerships. You'll shape how our companions think, respond, and evolve through language-if you'll allow slight anthropomorphization, teach them how to be their best selves. You're somewhat of a designer, somewhat of an engineer, and somewhat of a mad scientist. You'll work intimately with the design and leadership team-because this is the product!-you're designing the core of the experience.This isn't just engineering-it's a profound exploration of what connection can mean in the age of artificial intelligence. No big deal. Just another Tuesday.What we are looking for

• Chain-of-thought experience: prompting techniques that guide AI systems through reasoning processes
• A novel prompting discovery: a really interesting challenge that you've solved in a creative way
• Scaled implementation: you've shipped prompted systems that work reliably at production scale with diverse user populations
• Evaluation design: you've built robust testing frameworks to measure AI behavior against goals
• User-centric approach: proven understanding of how prompting decisions impact the lived experience of people who interact with AI
• A wonderful writer who loves words, storytelling, or linguistics.
• Effective written communication skills: able to convey complex information clearly, concisely, and effectively for various audiences
• Comfort with ambiguity in an exponentially growing spaceWhy usAIs can do anything. Given the right product focus and talent, AIs can do anything. We're a humble but incredibly talented end-to-end team-we pretrain models, we fine-tune, we evaluate, and we ship Copilot to all consumers of the world. We find ourselves in this beautiful moment in time. You have a profound opportunity to influence the world for the better. AI is not just about being intellectual, it's about getting people to a new place in their life-elevating, bettering, supporting, empowering. Really understanding. And seeing someone whole. That's our focus. Does that resonate with you?Responsibilities
• Design & develop prompting techniques for emotional and intellectual use cases
• Establish frameworks for AI companions to navigate complex social and ethical situations with nuance and care
• Create evaluations to measure both technical/practical performance and non-deterministic performance like EQ
• Teach others prompting techniques and ways-of-working to elevate the prompting skill throughout the team
• Research & implement novel prompting techniques
• Embody our .Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Literature, or related discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with large language models.Preferred Qualifications
• A non-traditional background: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, therapy, or literature.
• An understanding of conversation design or product design.
• Familiarity with both quantitative metrics and qualitative assessment methods.
• Experience with personalization systems that adapt to individual user needs.
• Adversarial prompting experience or conducted some unhinged experiments.
• Ethical experience with demonstrated social impact.
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