Microsoft Principal Research Scientist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

162875818

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant fieldAND3+ years related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsfor 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:

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related-research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant-research domain.
• Experience with LLMs in natural language, AI for code or related fields
• Outstanding teamwork and collaboration skills
• Experience in productizing AI and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor in field of Artificial Intelligence
• Experience defining and working on research projects, specifically in reasoning models and agentic AI

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 09, 2025.

• Initiate and advance research to advance state-of-the-art in AI for Software Engineering
• 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
• Collaborate with world renowned experts in programming tools and developer tools to integrate AI across software development stack for Copilot
• Build and manage large-scale AI experiments and models.

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