Microsoft Principal Applied Scientist 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

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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.
• Experience with large-scale models and frameworks such as PyTorch.
  
• Proven track record of building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale AI/ML models in real-world applications, especially in NLP, Information Retrieval, or Computer Vision.
  
• Publications in top-tier conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, SIGIR, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, WWW, WSDM or similar, demonstrating expertise in advancing the field.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with large language models / multi-billion parameter models, focusing on their efficient training and online inference.
• Background in developing or modifying deep learning algorithms/architectures to improve computational and memory efficiency.
  
• Experience in online advertising, search engines, or recommendation systems.

• Drive AI innovation: Lead the development of cutting-edge models that select and rank ads, predict user interaction, and optimize advertiser outcomes. Leverage and advance Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, and other techniques to solve complex problems.
• Optimize at scale: Design, build, and deploy models that operate at web scale, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and high performing in real-world settings.
• Directly improve user engagement, ad relevance, and advertiser return on.
• Lead experimentation and impact: Oversee large-scale online and offline experiments to continuously optimize and validate model performance, ensuring real-time impact on user and advertiser experiences.
• Collaborate and innovate: Work closely with worldwide research, engineers, data scientists, and product teams to integrate your solutions into Microsoft Ads systems, driving cross-team collaboration and delivering impactful end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor and lead: Provide strategic direction and technical mentorship to a team of researchers and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.