Microsoft Principal Research Scientist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

416891742

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related-research experience OR equivalent experience.
• Strong academic work and professional experience in statistics, machine learning, including deep learning, NLP, econometrics.
• Experience in building cloud-scale systems and experience working with open-source stacks for data processing and data science is desirable.
• Experience with LLMs in natural language, AI for code or related fields
• Experience in productizing AI and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Physics/Math, or related fields.
• Experience in productizing machine learning models is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to write and present research papers.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

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.

• Lead the development and evaluation of state-of-the-art models for code completion and editing, pushing the boundaries of code understanding, generation, fix and review.

• Develop retrieval-augmented systemsthat improve a model’s awareness of large and complex codebases, enabling context-rich code assistance.

• Design and prototype efficient inference algorithms to enable fast, interactive code generation experiences atscale.

• 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