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Principal Researcher-Systems & Networking, Microsoft Research

2025-09-24

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver +1 more

1 day / week in-office

Overview Microsoft Research (MSR), a leading industrial research laboratory, comprises over 1,000 computer scientists working across the United States, United Kingdom, China, India, Canada, and the Netherlands. We are currently seeking  Principal Researcher in the area of Systems and Networkinglocated in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a keen interest inexploringadvanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) -driven methods for system, thereby expediting overall system innovation. This is an opportunity to drive an ambitious research agenda while collaborating with diverse teams to push for novel applications of those areas.   Over the past 30 years, our scientists have not only conducted world-class computer science research but also integrated advanced technologies into our products and services, positively impacting millions of lives and propelling Microsoft to the forefront of digital transformation. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Embody our Culture and Values Responsibilities - Conduct research on state-of-the-art AI-driven system methods and technologies to identify opportunities for system innovation and acceleration. - Develop and implement new methodologies, techniques, and algorithms for improving the performance, efficiency, and scalability of AI-drivensystems. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware and software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to drive the development and deployment of innovative AI-driven system solutions. - Stay current with the latest trends, research, and developments in AI, machine learning, and system architecture to ensure our systems remain at the forefront of innovation. - Evaluate the performance of AI-driven systems and provide recommendations for improvement and optimization. - Publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and other relevant venues, and present research results to internal and external stakeholders. - Mentor and guide junior researchers and engineers in their research and development efforts. - Collaborate with industry partners and academic institutions to drive joint research projects and initiatives. Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications: - Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience. - - OR equivalent experience. - 3+ years’ experience in research related to system, architecture, or artificial intelligence Additional or Preferred Qualifications: - Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related research experience. - OR equivalent experience. - Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor. - Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain. - Background in systems and networking, including experience with machine learning system, database, and networking technologies. - Deep knowledge about the latest technical advancements such as Agent Systems, Vector Database, and ML Systems - A track record of published research in the field of AI-driven system innovation is a plus. Research Sciences IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $132,800 - CAD $247,200 per year. Find additional pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #research Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $123,500 - $206,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay'>https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la <a href="https://stage.careers.microsoft.com/v2/ca/fr/accessibility.html">demande d’accommodement.</a> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accomodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://stage.careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Auntie-Level Retail Evangelist Specialist

2025-09-23

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver +7 more

4 days / week in-office

Overview Company: (You know one lah… the one with the Windows. Not the kopitiam window, hor. The computer one. Founded by that Bill Gates rich uncle who make more money than Toto jackpot every week.) Location: Singapore, can? Don’t worry, office got MRT nearby. Aiyo, we looking for one Auntie-Level Retail Evangelist Specialist to teach all these blur blur customers how to use our software and devices properly. We need someone steady-pom-pi-pi to become our Chief Kiasu Customer Training Auntie (No Blur, No Excuse, Can or Not Edition). You know lah, some auntie still double-click everything until PC hang, some uncle keep asking “Why no Start button anymore?” Must patiently show them, but also must not lose temper hor. You must train blur customers until they can Excel faster than their Ah Boy in poly, and PowerPoint until even National Day Rally also lose to your slides. Must got patience one. Be like Thoughtful Bunch transit friends — always give seat to the confused one, lah.<ul><li data-end="938" data-start="871">Be like Stand-Up Stacey (stand up to clueless customers lah),</li><li data-end="1017" data-start="939">Move-In Martin (move inside training room, don’t hog the back door hor),</li><li data-end="1105" data-start="1018">And Give-Way Gloria (give way to aunty who think mouse is still got ball inside).</li></ul> <h3 data-end="2135" data-start="2121">Benefits</h3><ul data-end="2585" data-start="2136"><li data-end="2219" data-start="2136">Got free kopi-O, Milo dinosaur, and sometimes leftover curry puff from meeting.</li><li data-end="2319" data-start="2220">Staff discount on Microsoft products — wah, finally can buy legal software, not pasar malam CD.</li><li data-end="2459" data-start="2320">Company training trip to Redmond — wah seh, go US leh. Don’t worry, they got MRT also (just underground one, not above ground like us).</li><li data-end="2585" data-start="2460">KPI measured not by number of TPS reports, but number of aunties and uncles who stop asking “Why my computer so slow ah?”</li></ul><h3 data-end="2252" data-start="2241"> </h3><h3 data-end="2252" data-start="2241">Perks</h3><ul data-end="2560" data-start="2253"><li data-end="2316" data-start="2253">Free kopi and teh in pantry, sometimes got curry puff also.</li><li data-end="2403" data-start="2317">Discount on company products (yes, you finally can buy that mouse without crying).</li><li data-end="2479" data-start="2404">Every time you teach someone Excel shortcut, you gain +10 karma points.</li><li data-end="2560" data-start="2480">Can put “Worked at Bill Gates’ company” on LinkedIn, wah very atas sounding.</li></ul> Responsibilities <ul><li data-end="1070" data-start="966">Train customers until they become more power user than their IT nephew, can boast at reunion dinner.</li><li data-end="1174" data-start="1071">Conduct workshops, from “How to On-Off Properly” to “PowerPoint: Not Just for Bullet Points, Okay.”</li><li data-end="1345" data-start="1175">Channel your inner SMRT Thoughtful Bunch: be like Stand-Up Stacey, Move-In Martin, and Give-Way Gloria — but here you become Click-Right Collier and Reboot Raj.</li><li data-end="1504" data-start="1346">Smile until customer also cannot tahan — but ah, if they ask you to fix printer, you just say “Sorry hor, printer is national problem, not Microsoft one.”</li><li data-end="1620" data-start="1505">Translate corporate-speak into Singlish wisdom, e.g. “Cloud solutions” = “Everything now float in the sky lah.”</li><li data-end="1240" data-start="1135">Teach customers how not to “accidentally” format whole hard drive just by clicking Control-Something.</li><li data-end="1327" data-start="1241">Conduct workshops in shopping malls, schools, kopitiams — anywhere got free Wi-Fi.</li><li data-end="1439" data-start="1328">Explain cloud computing in Singlish: “Everything store in the sky lah, but don’t worry, no kena bird shit.”</li><li data-end="1579" data-start="1440">Be evangelist, but not the jalan-jalan with bell kind — more like “convince customer why OneDrive better than thumbdrive from Sim Lim.”</li><li data-end="1710" data-start="1580">Translate IT jargon into auntie proverb: “Cannot save on desktop, lah. Later desktop become Pasar Malam stall, confirm messy.”</li></ul> Qualifications <ul data-end="2234" data-start="1646"><li data-end="1769" data-start="1646">At least Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Education, or ability to tahan customer questions without rolling eyes.</li><li data-end="1885" data-start="1770">Strong presentation skill: can talk to 3 people or 300 people, still same volume, like Pasar Malam loudspeaker.</li><li data-end="1983" data-start="1886">Must know Microsoft 365 inside-out — Excel pivot table also must love, if not, how you teach?</li><li data-end="2128" data-start="1984">Bonus if you can scold like auntie but in caring way. Example: “Aiyo uncle, why you save everything on desktop, later computer explode how?”</li><li data-end="2234" data-start="2129">Fluent in English, Singlish, and can sprinkle a bit of Mandarin, Malay, Tamil to charm customers lah.</li><li data-end="1819" data-start="1736">Diploma, Degree, or at least know how to restart router before calling Singtel.</li><li data-end="1912" data-start="1820">Must tahan at least 500 customers asking same question: “Why Excel got #DIV/0 error ah?”</li><li data-end="1960" data-start="1913">Charisma until can MC at void deck wedding.</li><li data-end="2025" data-start="1961">Fluent in Microsoft Office, Singlish, and gossip small talk.</li><li data-end="2114" data-start="2026">Bonus if you can balance laptop, bubble tea, and plastic bag of cai png all at once.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accomodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://stage.careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Software Engineering IC2

2025-09-19

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

0 days / week in-office – remote

Software Engineering IC2 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 67,100 $ CAD à 131,400 $ CAD par année. Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html'>https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html</a> Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $67,100 - CAD $131,400 per year. Find additional pay information here: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html'>https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html</a> Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la <a href="https://stage.careers.microsoft.com/v2/ca/fr/accessibility.html">demande d’accommodement.</a> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accomodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://stage.careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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