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Technical Writer

Pop-Up Talent
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/13/2026
USA Fully Remote

Note: MUST be legally authorized to work in the United States.

This role is NOT open to 3rd party providers.

Technical Writer/Sociotechnical Linguist

JOB SUMMARY:

  • Join the Microsoft Search Assistant and Intelligence Responsible AI Science team to identify, measure, and mitigate Responsible AI issues in enterprise products powered by generative AI technology. You'll be a member of an interdisciplinary product team working in close collaboration with partners such as Microsoft Research and product teams. As a contributor to this initiative, you'll conduct deep dives in partnership with Microsoft feature teams. You'll develop measurement artifacts, methods, practices, and tools for identifying, measuring, or mitigating RAI harms caused by large-scale language technologies. You'll use expertise in linguistics and the social sciences to identify patterns across different content harms and capture those patterns in methods, practices, resources, and tools that can be applied across different language technologies, use cases, and deployment contexts

Typical Day in the Role:

  • Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to identify, measure, and mitigate Responsible AI issues in enterprise products powered by generative AI technology and working in close collaboration with partners such as Microsoft Research and product teams
  • Key Projects: This role will contribute to is developing content and product policy guidelines for measuring risks in generative AI

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in linguistics or a related social science field (Master's or Ph.D. preferred)
  • Experience working on Responsible AI assessment of Generative AI powered systems
  • Experience in in creating documentation for a technical audience
  • Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Candidate Requirements:

  • Years of Experience Required: 5-7 overall years of experience in the field
  • Disqualifiers: Candidates fresh out of college, no large industry experience, not familiarly with data analysis, not being detail orientated, and someone who does not have interpersonal skills. Lack of specific hard skills mentioned for the role. Not having technical writing skills. A lot of job hopping
  • Best vs. Average: The role requires a background in linguistics or social science and will be part of a fast-paced environment. Prior MSFT is a plus. Ability to speak with high stakeholder and manage workload efficiency
  • Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on ability to work fast paced environment and quality of work

Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience

  • Minimum1 years’ experience with interacting with generative AI, AI Safety, or Responsible AI
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience with content design
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience with Excel

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are an organization that values diversity. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including minorities and persons with disabilities.

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