Microsoft Senior Applied Scientist - Copilot Shared Services 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

231410615

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience applying research, including the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes.
• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
  
• 3+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or statistics.

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:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
• Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
• 3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
• Experience working on successful applied research projects in industry environments.
• Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
• Experinece collaborating and communicating both within-team and cross-team, and experience working through problems in ambiguous environments adapting to new research challenges as technology develops.

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 October 21,2025.

• Define, lead, and help to conduct research projects and workstreams that directly benefit our customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft’s core productivity products.
• Formulation of advanced prompt engineering, selecting and fine-tuning LLMs, designing and managing evaluation datasets, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and researching and assessing different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem.
• Collaborate and coordinate with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and product leaders and other key product stakeholders.
• Generate ML / AI based models that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers.
• Teach, guide, and tutor colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
• Iterate on existing hyptohesis to deliver world-class features.
• Share project outcomes and insights with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven.
• Embody the Microsoft and