Principal Applied Scientist - Microsoft

Responsibilities

Microsoft is innovating rapidly in the advertising space to grow its share of this market by providing the ad industry with the stateoftheart online advertising platform and service. Microsofts advertising team is at the core of this effort responsible for research & development of all the algorithmic components in our paid search advertising technology stack including:

• User/query intent understanding contextual targeting user targeting
• Creative Quality Modeling (Clickbait Perceived/Actual Relevance Image Quality Policies etc.)
• User response (click wins & conversion) prediction using large scale machine learning algorithms
• Auction Optimization
• Advertising metrics and measurement
• Data mining and analytics
• Experimentation infrastructure including tools for configuring and launching experiments dashboard live marketplace monitoring and diagnosis.

Qualifications

• Outstanding expertise and handson 710 years of experience in machine learning deep learning NLP computer vision and/or statistics
• 3 years experience in software development
• Knowledge of C# C Java or Python with 23 years of experience
• MS/PhD degree in CS/EE or related areas is preferred
• Passionate selfmotivated
• Effective communication skills both verbal and written
• Familiarity with distributed data processing/analysis and modeling paradigm.

• Experience with computational advertising.
• Research experience (publications) in the following areas is preferred statistical machine learning deep learning data mining causal inference information retrieval game theory mechanism design optimization.