Principal Applied Scientist

We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist in Bangalore, India, with a background in Machine Learning (ML), Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence), Data Science, Data Mining, or related fields. Candidates should have a keen interest in artificial intelligence and optimization at the web scale. 

They will play a key role in driving algorithmic improvements to online and offline systems, develop and deliver robust and scalable solutions, make direct impact to both user and advertisers experience, and continually improve our KPIs. The Search and AI organization includes the product, engineering, and science teams working towards making Microsoft’s Bing search engine globally state of the art. 

Our mission is to delight users everywhere with the best search experience. We are focused on creating competitive and differentiated search quality experiences, which we do by applying highly advanced ML technologies such as large-scale deep learning models and by investing in more modern search experiences. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Building and owning production machine learning models to improve results 
• Working hands on with state of art generative models like GPT, Llama, Mistral, and others, to deliver big impact. 
• Finding insights and forming hypothesis on large-scale data with various machine learning, feature engineering, statistical, and data mining techniques: e.g. regression, classification, NLP, optimization. 
• Designing experiments, understanding the resulting data, and producing actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them. 
• Wrangling large amounts of data (think petabytes) using various tools, including open-source ones and your own. All programming languages are welcome, especially Python, C#, R, C++, Java, and SQL. 
• Taking complex problems and the associated data and giving the answers in a concise form to assist executives in making key business decisions. 

Qualifications

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 equivalent experience.
• 6+ years related experience in Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.
• Practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) is highly preferred. 
• Experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers) in Machine learning conferences (e.g. ICML-International Conference of ML, NeurIPS-Neural Information and Processing Systems, ICLR-International Conference on Learning Representations) 

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.

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