Senior Applied Scientist
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I korthet
Microsoft Ads is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to drive innovation in machine learning and AI for their advertising ecosystem. This role involves advancing research in retrieval, matching, ranking, and generative models, and translating cutting-edge ideas into production systems at web scale, leveraging and improving LLMs, SLMs, and LRMs.
Ansvarsområden
- Advance research and development across retrieval, ranking, matching, and generative models.
- Leverage and improve SLMs/LLMs:/LRMs train, fine-tune, and align models and productionize them.
- Evolve the Ads ranking platform toward better usability, reliability, scalability, efficiency, and architectural coherence.
- Provide technical leadership on projects: set direction, coach a distributed team, and influence cross-org strategy.
- Follow research trends in AI to guide the group keep solutions state-of-the-art.
- Collaborate with research and engineering teams.
Krav
- Bachelor'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 Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Önskade kvalifikationer
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ 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.
- 6+ years of experience in ML with a proven record of shipping large-scale models to production.
- Expertise in training and inference optimization.
- Proven ability to influence platform architecture and align cross-team roadmaps.
- Track record of publications in tier-1 venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, WWW, ACL, SIGIR.
- 5+ years of experience in ML with a proven record of shipping large-scale models to production.
- Hands-on experience with SLM/LLM /LRM training, fine-tuning, and post-training.
- Experience designing and scaling recommendation systems with massive query/item spaces and multi-stage ranking pipelines.
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow) and distributed training on large datasets.
Förmåner
- 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 accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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