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Principal Applied Scientist

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Microsoft Monetization is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist and Technical Lead to drive the science vision, technical strategy, and execution for AI-powered advertising and commerce experiences across Search, Shopping, and Copilot. This role requires deep expertise in machine learning and AI, with a proven record of technical leadership in shipping large-scale production systems.

Ansvarsområden

  • Serve as the technical lead for AI-powered relevance, shopping, recommendation, and agentic commerce initiatives across Copilot, Shopping, and Ads experiences.
  • Drive innovation in machine learning technologies including LLMs, SLMs, multimodal AI, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and recommendation systems.
  • Define and execute the science roadmap for user intent understanding, product understanding, content relevance, and advertiser matching.
  • Lead end-to-end ML development, including model architecture, training data strategy, evaluation, experimentation, calibration, and production deployment.
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AI systems.
  • Shape the technical vision for future agent experiences, conversational shopping, and AI-assisted commerce scenarios.
  • Drive measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, engagement, relevance quality, and business outcomes.
  • Mentor scientists and engineers while raising the technical bar across machine learning, experimentation, and scientific rigor.

Krav

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years related experience OR Doctorate AND 5+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Extensive experience building and shipping large-scale machine learning systems in search, recommendation, ranking, advertising, commerce, conversational AI, or personalization.
  • Deep expertise in modern machine learning, including deep learning, transformers, representation learning, retrieval systems, recommendation systems, and foundation models.
  • Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead for large-scale cross-organizational initiatives.
  • Proven ability to translate research innovations into production systems with measurable business impact.
  • Experience with LLMs, SLMs, multimodal AI, and agentic systems.
  • Experience in advertising, e-commerce, shopping, recommendation, or marketplace ecosystems.
  • Experience developing AI-powered assistants, commerce experiences, or personalization platforms.
  • Experience optimizing distributed training and inference systems on large GPU clusters.
  • Experience mentoring principal-level engineers, scientists, and technical leaders.

Förmåner

  • Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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Microsoft

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för 2 veckor sedan

Anställningstyp

Heltid

Arbetsform

Hybrid

Erfarenhetsnivå

Senior

Platser

United States

Kvalifikation

Kandidatexamen, Masterexamen, Doktorand

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