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Job Summary:
Microsoft AI is focused on building AI-powered content recommendation systems to enhance user engagement. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of ranking and understanding systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and mentor others.
Responsibilities:
• Advance the recommendation & ranking stack. Architect and productionize large‑scale DNN/LLM‑enhanced recommenders (representation learning, sequence modeling, retrieval/ranking, slate optimization), balancing user satisfaction, content quality, and business goals.
• Deepen user & content understanding. Gather and analyze user signals from diverse sources to gain a thorough understanding of user behaviors and utilize ML/AI techniques to interpret and predict user needs and preferences. Design and build models that assess content quality and utility aspects to ensure product safety and drive sustainable user engagement.
• Scale E2E ML/AI systems. Collaborate with engineering on data contracts, feature stores, distributed training/inference, and automated rollout/rollback; drive architectural investments that increase agility and reliability of Discover’s AI platform.
• Drive innovation in AI-forward products. Collaborate with product, science and engineering team closely to innovate in AI-forward products, including agentic content feed experience with hyper personalized AI-generated content and generative UI.
• Mentor & influence. Provide technical leadership across problem framing, methodology selection, code quality, and publishing/knowledge‑sharing; uplevel peers through design reviews, deep‑dives, and principled decision‑
• Stay close to users. Translate user engagements and behavioral history into model objectives and product bets; ensure our AI solutions elevate relevance, transparency, and engagement for real users.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ 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 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR equivalent experience.
Preferred:
• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of industry experience on applied AI/ML for web scale products.
• Having publications at top AI/ML conferences (e.g., KDD, SIGIR, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, RecSys, ACL, CIKM, CVPR, ICCV, etc.).
• Demonstrated capability to grow the business through the innovation of ML algorithms.
• Experience in Software Engineering and familiar with ML Infra.
Company:
Microsoft AI is a software development company. Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.