Microsoft Principal Researcher – Generative AI - Microsoft Research Frontiers 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

787188431

The mission of the lab is to expand the pareto frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Some of our projects include work on Small Language Models (e.g. Phi, Orca) and agentic AI systems (e.g. AutoGen, MagenticOne, OmniParser).

We are seeking a
Principal Researcher - Generative AIPrincipal Researcher - Generative AI, you will play a crucial role in leading, developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of Generative AI models. Your work will have a significant impact on the development of cutting-edge technologies, advancing state-of-the-art and providing practical solutions to real-world problems.

Our ongoing research areas encompass but are not limited to:

• Reasoning and inference-time compute strategies
• Action models for automating web and computer tasks
• Evaluation and Understanding of model and agent capabilities

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant fieldAND 3+ years related research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Research program demonstrated bypublic artifacts like models, tools, code in AI space orpublications at the following conferences: NeurIPS, ICML,ICLR, ACL, NAACL, CVPR, COLT,ECCV,ICCV,EMNLP

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withbuilding andevaluatingfrontier models.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
• Demonstrable ability to define an ambitious, original research agenda.
• Ability to collaborate, communicate effectively, andtechnically leadmulti-disciplinary team.
• Keen interest in real-world applications and impact.

Research Sciences IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year.

Research Sciences IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• As aPrincipal Researcherinthe AI Frontiers lab, you will perform cutting-edge research in collaboration with other researchers, engineers, and product groups.
• As a member of a word-class research organization, you will be a part of research breakthroughs in the field and will be given an opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide.
• Embody our and .