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Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robotics Data)

Posted: May 29, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Data platforms and analytics, Hardware and devices

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robotics Data) at the Senior level, to lead data analysis, data curation, and data visualization efforts that accelerate the development, evaluation, and continuous improvement of…

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Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Spatial AI)

Posted: May 29, 2026

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Hardware and devices

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Spatial AI) at the data & applied science II level, to design, develop, and test physical world models that enable robots to understand, predict, and…

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Senior Researcher – AI Computer Architecture

Posted: June 23, 2026

Location: Cambridge, UK

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Hardware and devices, Systems and networking

The future of AI is being built not just in software, but in the physics of light. Our Future AI Infrastructure (FAI) team at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pioneering new hardware and system technologies to…

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Kairos: A Scalable Serving System for Physical AI

Yinwei Dai, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Landon Cox, Xenofon Foukas, Bozidar Radunovic, Ravi Netravali

May 2026

arXiv | May 2026

Publication

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

Jiaqian Yang, Romulo Aparecido, E. Sillekens, R. Sohanpal, Mindaugas Jarmolovivcius, Zelin Gan, Yang Hong, M. Kamalian-Kopae, Abdallah M. Ali, S. B. Gorajoobi, Ruben S. Lu'is, D. Orsuti, A. Donodin, Vitaly Mikhailov, Jiawei Luo, David J. DiGiovanni, N. Fontaine, L. Dallachiesa, Mikael Mazur, R. Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, David T. Neilson, Ian Phillips, W. Forysiak, S. Turitsyn, H. Furukawa, Jamie Gaudette, David J. Richardson, B. Puttnam, R. Killey, P. Bayvel

May 2026

arXiv | May 2026

Publication

Cross-Layer Energy Analysis of Multimodal Training on Grace Hopper Superchips

Mahmoud Ahmed, Sameh Abdulah, Olatunji Ruwase, Sam Ade Jacobs, Mathis Bode, Mohamed Elhoseiny, David E. Keyes

May 2026

arXiv | May 2026

Publication

MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs

Haoran Wu, Zeyu Cao, Yao Lai, Binglei Lou, Jiayi Nie, Can Xiao, T. Adeniran, Przemyslaw Forys, Kauser Johar, Catriona R Wright, Junyi Liu, Kai Shi, Nicholas D. Lane, R. Antonova, Jianyi Cheng, Timothy Jones, Aaron Zhao, Robert Mullins

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

Publication

Exergy-based pore-network optimization of gas diffusion layers for enhanced efficiency in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Sa′ed Rawashdea, M. Almajali, Ahmed Salem, Akram E. Zeid, Nathan Kawansson, D. Paterson

ScienceDirect | April 2026

Publication

HPCCFA: Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Control Flow Attestation

Claudius Pott, Luca Wilke, Jan Wichelmann, Thomas Eisenbarth

March 2026

arXiv | March 2026

Publication

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

∗. IkechukwuUchendu, Swati Goel, Karly Hou, Ebrahim M. Songhori, V. Reddi, Vincent Zhuang, Google DeepMind

March 2026

arXiv | March 2026

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robotics Data)

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Spatial AI)

Senior Researcher – AI Computer Architecture

Kairos: A Scalable Serving System for Physical AI

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

Cross-Layer Energy Analysis of Multimodal Training on Grace Hopper Superchips

MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs

Exergy-based pore-network optimization of gas diffusion layers for enhanced efficiency in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

HPCCFA: Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Control Flow Attestation

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

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