Microsoft Sr Principal Researcher 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

246254082

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).

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/Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field AND several years related research experienceOR equivalent experience.
• Research program demonstrated by public artifacts like models, tools, code in AI space or publications at the following conferences: NeurIPS, ICML,ICLR, ACL, NAACL, CVPR, COLT,ECCV,ICCV,EMNLP

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building and evaluating frontier 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, and technically lead multi-disciplinary team.
• Keen interest in real-world applications and impact.

• As a Sr. Principal Researcher in MSR, 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.