Data Science Internship Opportunities jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

As a Software Engineering PhD Intern, you will work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative software solutions. You will apply your passion for customers and product quality as you provide technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers. You will learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes to leverage in your solutions. This opportunity will enable you to advance your career by designing, developing, and testing next-generation software that will empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Required Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field during the academic term immediately before the internship.

• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

• At least one year of programming experience in an object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Academic/research experience with distributed systems, network architecture, operating systems, and/or related topics.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5610.00 - $11010.00 per month. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $7270.00 - $12030.00 per month.

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.

• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.

• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.

• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

As aScience Managerfor BIC, you will play a pivotal role in advancing Microsoft's mission to empower every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more. You will contribute to the development and integration ofYou will collaborate acrossThis rolewill combineAI knowledge withapplied sciencedemonstrate a growth mindset

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• 1+ years of experience withgenerativeAIOR LLM/ML

Other Requirements:

• to meet Microsoft,customerand/or government security screening requirementsarerequiredfor this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• requiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withMLOpsWorkflows, including CI/CD, monitoring, and retraining pipelines.

• Familiarity with modernLLMOpsframeworks (e.g.,LangChain,PromptFlow)

• + years of experience publishing in peer-reviewed venues or filing patents

• Experience presenting at conferences or industry events

• + years of experience conducting research in academic or industry settings

• + year of experience developing and deploying live production systems

• + years of experience working with Generative AI models and ML stacks

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15, 2025.

Bringing the State of the Art to Products

• Build collaborative relationships with product and business groups to deliver AI-driven impact
• LeadResearch and implementation ofstate-of-the-artusing foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, graphs, multi-agent architectures, as well as classical machine learning techniques.
• Fine-tunefoundation models using domain-specificdatasets. -Evaluate model behavior on relevance, bias, hallucination, and response qualityvia offline evaluations, shadow experiments, online experiments, and ROI analysis.
• Build rapid AI solution prototypes, contribute to production deployment of these solutions, debug production code, supportMLOps/AIOps.
• Contribute to papers, patents, and conference

Leveraging Researchin real-world problems

• deepexpertisein AI subfields (e.g.,deep learning, Generative AI,NLP,muti-modal models)to translatecutting-edgeresearch into practical, real-world solutions that drive product innovation and business impact.
• Share insights on industry trends and applied technologies with engineering and product teams.
• Formulate strategic plans that integratestate-of-the-art

Documentation

• Maintain clear documentation of experiments, results, and methodologies.
• Share findings through internal forums, newsletters, and demos to promote innovation and knowledge sharing

,and Security

• Ensure responsible AI practices throughout the development lifecycle, from data collection to deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to internal ethics and privacy policies andensure responsible AIpracticethroughoutAIdevelopment cyclefrom data collectionto model development, deployment, and monitoring.

Specialty Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate generative AI solutions usingfoundation models and more.
• Deep understanding ofsmall and large language models architecture, Deep learning, fine tuning techniques, multi-agent architectures, classicalML,andoptimization techniques to adapt out-of-the-box solutions toparticular businessproblems
• Prepare and analyze data for machine learning,identifyingoptimalfeaturesandaddressingdata gaps.

is committed to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies that enable deeper understanding and interaction with people, objects, and environments in the 3D real world. Our research spans a diverse range of areas, including computer vision, generative AI, 3D perception, and robotic action learning, among others relevant to Embodied AI. By pushing the boundaries of these domains, we aim to develop innovative solutions that bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds, empowering AI systems to perceive, comprehend, and navigate complex real-world scenarios.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related STEM field.
• Research experience inembodied AI, robotics, AI models, natural language, computer vision, demonstrated for example through research in a related PhD program and/or publications in conferences or scientific journals.
• Hands-on experience with Python and modern deep learning frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas clearly.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to physically work from Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo (Japan) for the duration of the internship.
• Must obtain permission from your academic advisor and commit to at least four months of internship.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Proven software engineering skills, evidenced by professional experience, internships, and impactful open-source contributions.
• Practical experience with handling data and robot learning, such as experience in Vision-Language-Action modelsor Hand Object Interactions.
• Familiarity with1)robot learning for robot hand manipulationor 2) hand pose estimation techniques or 3) reasoning techniques (Chain-of-Thought) used in LLM.

• Contribute to a high-impact research agenda within the context of a highly collaborative research culture alongside a team of experts in Embodied AI.
• Design and implement experiments to test new hypotheses and validate research findings.
• Communicate research findings to an interdisciplinary research team.
• Prepare technical papers, presentations, and open-source releases of research code.

At , we believe machine learning and artificial intelligence has the potential to transform scientific modelling and discovery crucial for solving the most pressing problems facing society including sustainable materials and discovery of new drugs.

Required:

• PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Computational Biology, or related field.
• Strong software engineering in Python (packaging, testing, CI), with systems thinking for data‑intensive ML.
• Deep learning experience (PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow) and solid foundations in linear algebra, probability, and statistics.
• Proven experience designing robust data pipelines for large‑scale ML (HPC or cloud).
• Ability to reason about learning signal and to assess information content of real‑world scientific datasets.
• Excellent collaboration and communication in interdisciplinary teams.

Preferred:

• Hands‑on cryo‑EM experience (e.g., map reconstruction, refinement, or pipeline tooling).
• CUDA or C++ for performance‑critical components; experience with mixed precision and memory‑efficient training.
• Experience integrating experimental data into ML models (e.g., constraints/priors from cryo‑EM, binding assays, spectroscopy).
• Familiarity with MD data, structure prediction systems, or protein design work-flows.
• Experience with cost‑optimization for data collection and cloud utilization; clear track record of building reliable, maintainable research software at scale.
• Experience with structural biology or molecular biology data/techniques (e.g., cryo‑EM, binding assays, spectroscopy, expression, sequencing)

• Data integration for structure & dynamics: Build ingestion/curation pipelines for structural/biophysical data (mmCIF/PDB, EM maps/particles, binding/biophysics, spectroscopy); implement map/volume preprocessing (e.g., resolution filtering, normalization) and alignment to model inputs/outputs.
• Cryo‑EM expertise: Operationalize end‑to‑end flows from raw image stacks/particles to 3D maps and model‑ready tensors; interoperate with community formats (e.g., EMDB/EMPIAR, mmCIF) and link to sequences/annotations.
• Signal & information content: Design dataset diagnostics (e.g., mutual‑information‑like measures, effective sample size, SNR proxies) to quantify what data teach the model; build active‑learning loops that maximize learning per euro of data collection time.
• Model‑aware data services: Implement scalable, versioned data services and feature stores that feed training/evaluation; design loaders/augmentations optimized for throughput and correctness (GPU‑aware).
• Training‑at‑scale engineering: Own distributed data pipelines and orchestration for large runs on Azure; profile and tune I/O, storage tiers, data locality, and caching; monitor cost, utilization, and failure modes.
• Quality, governance, and reproducibility: Codify schemas/ontologies, metadata contracts, unit/integration tests, and lineage; automate validation and data drift detection; maintain documentation and examples.
• Partner across disciplines: Work closely with ML researchers, structural biologists, and drug designers; translate experimental constraints into robust computational workflows; communicate clearly and proactively.

As part of the Cloud + AI Data team, you’ll leverage existing Repeatable IP and execution engines with accountability to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption, and ensure a successful deployment for the customer for services such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, OpenAI, Cosmos DB, Purview. You’ll collaborate with different teams across Microsoft, share best practices, and stay current with evolving trends to help customers unlock the full value of their data and AI investments.

Your Role and Impact:

• Strategic Guidance: Engage with customers & partners to understand their goals and challenges, then provide strategic solutions that maximize the value of their Microsoft technology investments.
• Technical Leadership: Lead in-depth technical discussions, offering insights and recommendations to overcome complex challenges in data and AI initiatives both On-premises (SQL Server) as well as in Azure.
• Empowering Customers & Partners: Support customers & Partners in achieving successful outcomes by developing tailored solutions that drive their digital transformation and innovation.
• Continuous Growth: Leverage this opportunity to advance your career while enhancing your knowledge and skills in cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years’ experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

OR equivalent experience

6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).

6+ years experience working on technical projects

• 5+ years of experience with SQL Server, SQL Server on Azure VMs, Azure SQL DB, and/or Azure SQL Managed Instance, Data Warehouses, Power BI.

• Experience in SQL Server at scale, on-premises to Azure migrations, complex SQL Server troubleshooting, performance tuning and optimization, scaling OLTP and OLAP workloads, and securing SQL Server on-premises or in Azure.

Technical Certifications in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Azure Data Platform, Power BI, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).

Technical experience and knowledge in Enterprise-scale technical experience with On-premises, cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.

Other Key Requirements

• Chinese (Mandarin) language skill at highest proficiency level is a Must have skill. It will be great advantage if applicant knows Cantonese as well as Mandarin.
• Advanced written, spoken English level with direct customer facing experience.
• Note: Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role’s job duties.

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in two or more of the following Data Platform and Analytics Cloud solutions :
• SQL Server/Database and OSS database (PostgreSQL, MySQL etc)
• Azure Databases (Azure SQL, Azure Postgres SQL, Azure MySQL, Cosmos DB)
• Power BI
• Microsoft Fabric (Fabric DW, Real-Time Intelligence, OneLake, Data Integration, Data Engineering, Copilot, Data Science)
• Azure Databricks
• Microsoft Purview
• Azure AI Foundry
• Hyperscale
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Machine Learning
• Azure Open AI
• Cognitive services
• NoSQL Databases including OSS (Cassandra, Mongo, and HBase etc)
• Big Data platform such as Synapse, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Spark
• Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse, Databricks, and visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau.
• Data Science and Data Engineering including machine learning framework such as PyTorch and scikit-learn.
• Streaming, IoT, Real-time analytics
• Expertise in data estate workloads like HDInsight, Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Python
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend
• Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of cloud development platforms
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs
• Expertise in AI like LLM Preferred

• You will develop relationships with key customer IT and business decision makers, to understand their data estate, priorities, and success measures, and design secure, scalable Data & AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.

• You will understand customers’ overall data estate Business and IT priorities and success measures to design Data & Analytics solutions that drive business value and drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor.

• You will ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment and provide feedback and insights from customers/partners.

• You will develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments and identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP).

• You will apply technical knowledge to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create Data & Analytics roadmaps, drive Proof of Concepts (POC) and Minimal Viable Product (MVP), and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key AI technologies where appropriate.

• You will maintain technical skills and knowledge, keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the AI technical community while educating customers on Azure platform.

• You will accelerate customer outcomes - Share expertise, contribute to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes and obtain relevant accreditations and certifications. Proactively identify gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property [MIP], Design, and Governance). Applies subject matter expertise to develop new IP that fills identified gaps

• Drive Azure consumption through accurate and complete Azure Consumption Plans and support Unified/Factory delivery models.

• Lead technical workshops, build MVPs, and guide customers through production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to remove blockers and share customer feedback.
• Evangelize Azure technologies within customer, partner, and community ecosystems.

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery results, ensuring completeness and accuracy of consumption and customer success plans in collaboration with the Customer Success Account Managers.

• Provide delivery oversight and escalation support for key consumption engagements across Data & Analytics workloads.

• Drive technical excellence by leading the health, resiliency, security, and optimization of mission-critical data workloads, ensuring readiness for production-scale AI use cases.

• You will identify resolutions to issues blocking go-live of migration and modernization projects by leveraging Azure Infrastructure technical subject matter expertise and lead technical conversations with customers to drive value from their Microsoft investments and deliver all work according to MS best practices and policies.

• You will demonstrate a self-learner mindset through continuous alignment of individual skilling to team/area demands and Customer Success goals as you accelerate customer outcomes and engage in relevant communities to share expertise, contribute to IP creation, prioritize IP reuse and learn from others to help accelerate your customers transformation journey.

• Be accredited and certified to deliver with advanced and expert-level proficiency in priority workloads including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB.

Technical leadership

• Design the solution using your Data Platform technical knowledge, architectural approach, consultancy skills and our methodology to win a customer’s technical decision and meet the customer’s needs; drive proof of concepts (POCs)/production deployments to create momentum for MVPs, infusing key AI technologies where appropriate and being technically proficient to do POC with hands-on-skills.

• Data Platform technologies, including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos DB, as well as Analytics, Data Warehousing, and Data Engineering scenarios. Focus on Intelligent Data and Analytics Platforms such as Synapse, Lakehouse architecture, Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Power BI. Stay informed on market trends and competitive insights and actively collaborate and share knowledge within the Data & AI technical community.

• Experience in Azure architecture design, Azure IaaS, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, High Availability, service resilience and distributed systems.

• Experience as a Database Administrator, data platform design, SQL Server at scale, on-premises to Azure migrations, complex SQL Server troubleshooting, performance tuning and optimization, scaling OLTP and OLAP workloads, and securing SQL Server on-premises or in Azure

• Experience with High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions such as Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Always-On Availability Groups, and Replication

• Use trace analysis, debug skills, source code, and other proprietary tools, to analyse problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; this may involve writing code

• Consultative experience along with presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences

• Learns to identify and communicate areas in intellectual property (IP) that need refreshing or have gaps. Contributes to IP development with guidance/supervision.

• Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite)

Required Qualifications:

• Proven years years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• Expert in Azure Databases (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL) from migration & modernize and creating new AI apps OR Equivalent experience.
• Expert in Azure Analytics (Fabric, Azure Databricks, Purview) OR competitors (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake) in data warehouse, data lake, big data, analytics, real-time intelligent, and reporting using integrated Data Security & Governance.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information
• Several years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• Proven years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Proficient on data warehouse & big data migration including on-prem appliance (Teradata, Netezza, Oracle), Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks) and Azure Synapse Gen2.
• Proficiency in Danish is preferred.

• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep expertise in Analytics Portfolio: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, DW, real-time intelligence, BI, Copilot), Azure Databricks, Purview Data Governance and Azure Databases: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and grow expertise in on-prem EDW (Teradata, Netezza, Exadata), Hadoop & BI solutions.
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in cloud Database & Analytics communities and customer forums