Overview
Microsoft Research India is a leading research lab advancing innovation across areas including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Theory, Technology and Empowerment, and Systems. Established two decades ago, the lab has been at the forefront of computer science research in India and is home to researchers and impactful projects.
AI agents are moving beyond fixed prompts and static policies. They can now plan, use tools, write code, and work across long, multi-step tasks. However, most agents still cannot continuously improve through their own experience, learn from failures, or adapt while operating.
Our team is building self-evolving agentic systems: agents that improve their own policies, skills, memory, and scaffolding through interaction, feedback, and reinforcement learning.

Responsibilities
As a Senior Researcher – Self-Evolving Agentic Systems, you will advance the state of the art in how LLM-based agents learn and adapt. You will work across the full stack,



from designing reinforcement learning algorithms and reward signals to building environments and evaluations and translating research ideas into systems that operate at scale.
You will collaborate with researchers and engineers across Microsoft Research India, Microsoft Research worldwide, and Microsoft product groups, enabling your work to contribute to both the research community and products used by millions of people.
We are looking for candidates who:
• Are passionate about advancing the state of the art in reinforcement learning, LLM post-training, and autonomous agents.
• Have a strong research track record demonstrated through publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, COLM, or similar venues, or through impactful open-source contributions.
• Combine scientific rigor with solid engineering skills and enjoy turning research ideas into working systems.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative research environment.
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex, o

📌 Senior Researcher (Bengaluru)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Bengaluru