Applied Scientist
Microsoft
Microsoft is innovating rapidly in advertising to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with the state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service. Bing Ads algorithm team is at the core of this effort, working on the following research & development: Selection(recall), Relevance, User Response Prediction (Click Prediction and Conversion prediction), Autobidding, Large Language Model and Large Scale Machine Learning & Serving System.
The team is a world-class R&D team of passionate and talented scientists and engineers who aspire to solve challenging problems and turn innovative ideas into high-quality products and services that can help hundreds of millions of users and advertisers, and directly impact our business.
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Responsibilities
- Play a key role in driving algorithmic and modeling improvement to the system.
- Analyze performance and identify opportunities based on offline and online testing.
- Develop and deliver robust and scalable solutions, make direct impact to both user and advertisers experience.
- Continually increase the revenue for Bing ads.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
- At least 3-year working experience.
- Good design and problem-solving skills to handle challenging tasks independently.
- Excellent self-learning ability to try new ideas from textbooks or research papers and apply them to real business scenario of the assigned tasks.
- Self-motivated with strong passion on machine learning and related tasks.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Good communication, collaboration, and analytical skills.
- Experiences on search ads recall, relevance & ranking system, LLM.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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