Microsoft Senior Research Scientist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

471778095

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in relevant field

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years of research experience with Large Language Models

Other Requirements::

Ability 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:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 2+ years related research experience
  • o OR equivalent experience.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.

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 April 21,2025.

• Lead the development of state-of-the-art models for code completion and editing, pushing the boundaries of code understanding and generation.
• Design and prototype efficient inference algorithms to enable fast, interactive code generation experiences at scale.
• Develop retrieval-augmented and program analysis models that improve a model’s awareness of large and complex codebases, enabling context-rich code assistance.
• Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github
• Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering
• You will research and develop an understanding of state-of-the-art insights, tools, and technologies and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support planning for research projects. You’ll begin to evaluate insights based on their impact and value.
• You will advance a research agenda through one or more research projects, yielding new algorithms, prototypes, insights, and more. You will contribute to ethics and privacy policies and help develop technologies that uphold company values.
• You will expand collaborative relationships with relevant product or business groups and participate in activities such as filing patents and authoring white papers. You’ll collaborate with other researchers and publish papers as a lead author.
• You will provide mentorship by participating in onboarding junior team members. You’ll guide junior team members in processes and scenarios, research projects.