Applied Scientist Ii

3 days ago

Bengaluru Karnataka, India Microsoft Full time

We are looking for **Applied Scientist II** with expertise in areas like Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference to join our team at Microsoft Ads India. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on some of the most complex and high-impact challenges in online advertising, where your innovations will directly shape user experience, advertiser success, and the future of the digital advertising ecosystem.

At Microsoft Ads, you'll be solving web-scale optimization problems, from selecting relevant ads to modeling user interaction with ad content. The models and solutions you develop will impact millions of users daily and drive revenue growth for Microsoft ads and the Microsoft Ads platform. This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about artificial intelligence, optimization at scale, and transformative innovation.

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**:

- 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.
- 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.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- Master's Degree in relevant field AND 2+ year(s) related-research experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with large-scale models and frameworks such as PyTorch.
- 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**:

- ** 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**:

- 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 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
- 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.

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