Microsoft Principal Applied Scientist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

211087231

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs), including experience with training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs for various applications.
• Expertise in one or more subareas (e.g., Object Recognition, Text Classification) and a broad understanding of research areas.
• Hands on experience with server-side or on-device models, with fluency in Python, C# and Typescript.
• Experience shipping high-quality products at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in ML including designing, developing, testing, and shipping software in a full software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Applied Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related disciplines.
• Passion for customers, innovation, and product quality.
• Experience monitoring of production or AI training tasks
  

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.

• Serve as an expert within a team on changes in industry/market trends, products, industry advances, and opportunities in applied technologies across relevant applied research areas.
• Review business and product requirements and incorporatestate-of-the-artresearch occurring at Microsoft and the academic field to formulate plans that will meet business goals.
• Bringnew technologyand approaches into production by applying long-term research efforts to solve product needs across quality, performance, and efficiency.
• Proactively provide mentorship and coaching to team members by sharingexpertise, guiding team members in projects and their careers, andto establishbest practices and standards.
• Nurture and grow collaborative relationships with product or business group leaders inside or outside Microsoft and provideexpertiseor technology to create business impact.
• Create and sustain an effective team culture. We value and promote a high trust environment where we work closely and effectively with others.