Microsoft Principal Applied Scientist 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

865600339

As a senior member of the team, you will be a tech lead and drive innovation across model architectures, training, and deployment. You will play a key role in converting cutting-edge research into practical applications and experiences for users across the globe by proven skills in product experiences: understanding requirements, setting partner expectations and communicating across team boundaries.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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 Master'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 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.
• A record of publications in top-tier scientific venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, KDD, WWW, CHI, PNAS, Nature, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoRL).

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
• 7+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping, using industry standard tools (PyTorch, C++/STL, Huggingface/wnb, AML, CMake).
• 1+ years experience developing agentic systems and natural user interfaces.

• Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft’s core productivity products.
• Shape product direction by integrating rigorous scientific methods into the product lifecycle.
• Collaborating and coordinating with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders. Serving as a bridge between research and product.
• Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
• Sharing your research 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.
• Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often Microsoft researchers (MSR)) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.