Data & Applied Scientist Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Microsoft News team is looking for a machine learning scientist who enjoy working on complex problems that push the boundaries of AI. We build one of the most popular news products that serves 56 different markets and hundreds of millions of active users. We mine and learn from petabytes scale data to deliver engaging experiences to our users that requires state of the art understanding of NLP, recommender systems, and Deep Learning.

We solve problems such as:

* How do you analyze, understand, and encode user interest?
* How do you uncover the user's true intent from vague signals?
* Which key concepts best represent the content?
* How to encode a document into an embedding that can capture its essence?
* How to bring user understanding and document understanding together to construct personalized and engaging experience?

We are a centralized team of scientists who attempt to solve these super challenging problems by leveraging our assets such as ample computation resources, internal collaborators and a pool of judges to create our own data sets. We value agility to move fast and ship our techniques end to end from data extraction through final UI representation to impress our customers.

* 2+ years of experience building practical machine learning models with applications to real-world problems.
* Experience with ML tools to build models and analyze data. (e.g. scikit-learn, keras, tensorflow)
* Knowledge of distributed computing systems (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Cosmos)
* Demonstrated coding skills.
* Experience in Natural Language Processing and/or Recommender System is a plus.
* PhD in Computer Science or Statistics, or equivalent work experience.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

The ideal candidate has strong machine learning experience, moves fast to ship their techniques and likes to work on ambiguous problems that often need to be refined to collect a good quality data set for applying state of the art machine learning techniques.