Technology Consultant 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.

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.

• A forum to leverage your technical expertise and business acumen
• Authorization to make major disruptions and changes to the technical architecture to enable transformative solutions
• An opportunity to drive your customers to do business in new and transformational ways
• The chances to inspire and lead teams of deep technology experts from the customer, partner, and Microsoft
• Opportunity to drive trusted relationship with the customer

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, practice building, or related technical/sales/industry experience
  
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience in consulting services sales and technology sales

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing aPhD/ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• Must have at least three additional semesters of school remaining (graduation date 2027 or later)
• Solid background in machine learning, deep learning, language models and optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD inComputer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow and ONNX.
• Research or hands-on experience in efficient model architecture and model compression techniques (quantization, pruning, distillation, etc.).
• Research or hands-on experience with language models (e.g., BERT, LLaMA, GPT).
• Publications in top-tier relevant ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, or ICLR).
• Previous industry experience as a Data Scientist / Intern.
• Solid background in machine learning, deep learning, language models and optimization.
• Strong analytical thinking and independent research capabilities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and writing skills.

• Design, implement, and evaluate methods to enable efficient, secure and optimized deployment of AI models on edge or resource-constrained platforms.
• Drive innovation and practical research, iteratively improving solutions based on empirical results, working with large-scale textual datasets.
• Document research findings and contribute to publications, open-source projects, or patent filings as appropriate.
• Formulate approaches to solve problems using well defined algorithms and data sources
• Incorporate an understanding of product functionality and customer perspective to provide context for those problems.
• Engage with peer stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Can see the ‘big picture,’ and are able to comfortably engage the C-Suite on their business goals
• Have a passion for working in technology-led business transformation that delivers both short and long term impact.
• Have a desire to work in genuine industry-breakthrough innovation
• Can articulate complex problems and solutions with clarity
• Have a can-do and tenacious attitude alongside a willingness to get stuck to deliver client outcomes
• Have experience of working with a globally distributed customer and colleague base, with an engagement style that seeks to understand and embrace geographical and cultural differences
• Have experience in developing new trusted relationships across a large and complex organisation and maintaining those relationships to deliver customer’s desired business outcomes and common goals
• Have a strong reputation for technical sales excellence and accountability delivering results both through personal impact and through the impact of others
• Embrace diversity and inclusivity in all that you do, and create environments for others to be successful
• Advocate growth mindset, turning challenges into opportunities
• A strong industry knowledge and record of accomplishment in Financial Services is preferable

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, practice building, or related technical/sales/industry experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience in digital transformation or using technology to drive customer business outcomes.

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 22, 2025.

• Apply deep analytical thinking and finance acumento solve business problems,utilizingfinancial modeling to deliver actionable insights.
• Leverage AI tools and data mining/querying methods to enhance the speed and quality of financial analysis, while actively learning andrecommendingprocessimprovementsforreporting and data collection.
• Communicate analysis clearlyand logicallytodriverecommendations and decision-making.
• Conduct comprehensive reviewsoffinancial documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies and regulatory standards.
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Collaborates with internal stakeholders in the pre-sale process by understanding business requirements and providing industry and technical input and/or solution offerings to help shape the deal. Supports drafting proposals and/or statement of work (SOW). Provides input on staffing and skill requirements for delivery to Resource Deployment, Technical Delivery Managers (TDMs), and/or Project Managers. Uses business, industry, and technology strategies to map customer/partner requirements to the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field AND 3+ years leadership experience.
  • OR 4+ years equivalent related experience.
• 2 Years of experience with architecture, deployment, and/or operations of Government classified networks.
• Experience working with Ansible, Splunk and/or Solarwinds.
• Experience working with L2/L3 switching/routing platforms, application networking and networking protocols to include BGP, OSPF, VRRP, LACP.

Other Requirements:

• Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance . Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
  • Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years leadership experience in relevant area of business.
• Technical certifications based on domain/service line (e.g., Azure, Security, Dynamics).
• Delivery Management certification (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Change Management, Project Management).
• 10+ years of experience as an engineer or technical Program Manager.
• 4+ years of experience with architecture, deployment, and operations of Government classified networks.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud networking implementations with preferred focus on onboarding customer infrastructure to cloud.
• CCNP or higher or equivalent professional certification; CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
• Highly effective communication and collaboration with customers, partners, and across teams is required.
• Excellent communication skills and team player with ability to build solid relationships at all levels, across teams, geographies, and business functions.
• Excellent judgement, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure when the situation is ambiguous.
• Applied experience with firewall, network security, or network monitoring solutions, including vendor platforms to include Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, and/or Juniper SRX. Applied experience with Azure Networking, Azure Kubernetes, Yaml scripting, and Bicept ARM.
• Applied experience with privacy encryption protocols/capabilities to include VPN, IPSec, and TLS.
• Applied experience with cloud or other software-defined networking implementations to include networking authentication, authorization, RBAC, compute, databases.
• Experience with Linux and Windows experiences, with focus on shell commands and scripting.
• Experience in one or more programming languages: C#, C++, Java, Python.
• Experience in network automation using scripting languages such as Python.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20th, 2025.

Collaborates with the Project Manager, Pillar Leads, and other internal technical resources to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts and pilots. Works with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders to gather and ratify requirements and constraints.

Collaborates with the Account Team and/or Bid Team to understand the business solution/problem. Drives agreement, based on the customer’s priorities, requirements/constraints, approach, principles, concepts, and expectations. Builds and documents a realistically costed, advanced/complex Solution Approach with traceability of requirements, constraints, decisions, and tradeoffs that balances risk, technical credibility, and technical innovation to meet customer need, predominantly based on existing solution offerings and/or reference architecture.

Manages and ensures the all-up delivery of consulting engagements, as necessary. Defines and documents the architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach.

Proposes and develops new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners. Builds and maintains an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to ensure the rationale for the business solution's Architecture is known and understood.

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