Microsoft Senior Researcher Digital Chemistry – Microsoft Research AI Science 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

742719236

Required:

• Track record in Digital Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry or related field, as evidenced by a PhD or similar research experience.
• Strong understanding of Digital Chemistry, Chemoinformatics and/or applied Quantum/Computational Organic Chemistry data and methods, including applications and limitations.
• Knowledge of contemporary Organic Chemistry.
• Publication record in relevant Chemistry journals and/or ML conferences.
• Either hands on experience in organic synthesis, or track record of collaborating with experimental collaborators.
• Experience in Python coding, ideally demonstrated by published software projects (e.g., github).

Preferred:

• Experience working with graph or geometric deep learning, reinforcement learning, and/or generative models is a plus.
• PostDoc or more senior academic experience or industrial research experience.

• Contribute to and drive an ambitious, high-impact, AI research agenda in digital organic chemistry.
• Use your Chemistry expertise to develop and evaluate models, methods and build new training and testing datasets.
• Write scripts and code to handle, process and analyze small and large chemical datasets.
• Work with internal and external partners to deploy and evaluate models and work-flows.
• Prepare technical papers, presentations, and open-source releases.
• Working on a day-to-day basis with an international and interdisciplinary research team on one overarching research goal.