What if your job description were simply “Make tomorrow better?” That’s the essence of roles within our Microsoft Ads teams. Every day, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the table, challenging ourselves to reimagine what is and what can be. Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billion of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day. The rapid growth of online advertising has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand computational intelligence. Computational Advertising has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field that involves information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, statistics, and micro-economics, to solve challenging problems that arise in online advertising. The central problem of computational advertising is to select an optimized slate of eligible ads for a user to maximize a total utility function that captures the expected revenue, user experience and return on investment for advertisers. The role offers an opportunity to work on challenging problems across the ads algorithmic stack and build products that generate new revenue streams and provides fast paced growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with the state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service. Audience Marketplace 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, document/ad understanding, user targeting
• Relevance modeling, IR-based ad retrieval
• User response (click & conversion) prediction using large scale machine learning algorithms
• Rich and innovative Ad products that add relevant and personalized information
• Advertising metrics and measurement
• Data mining and analytics
• Experimentation infrastructure including tools for configuring and launching experiments, dashboard, live marketplace monitoring, and diagnosis.

We heavily use the recent advances in grid or cloud computing infrastructure to harness huge volume of data for solving many of the above-mentioned problems. The Audience Marketplace 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. Our experimentation infrastructure allows us to innovate and test new algorithms rapidly with live traffic to measure their effectiveness and launch them in production as soon as they produce positive results, which makes our work environment productive and rewarding. We are looking for an Applied Scientist or Machine Learning Scientist to incubate technologies from end to end to make product impact. The candidate will engage in high potential projects grounded in applications to improve our ad, query and web page understanding.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise and hands-on 3-5 years of experience on machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision and/or statistics
• 5+ years’ experience in software development
• 2-3 years of experience in C#, C++, Java or Python
• Familiarity with distributed data processing/analysis and modeling paradigm

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS/PhD degree in CS/EE or related areas

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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