Are you a real Machine Learning enthusiast? Does the magic of the data world fascinate you? Here at Microsoft Search we have been working on Machine Learning much before it became cool to do so. Here we are solving real world problems to empower millions of people around the globe.

Microsoft Search powers delightful and relevant experiences for enterprise users to cater to their overall information need. AI powered Copilots have made the future to be the current reality.

We are looking for candidates who can help build the next generation Machine Learning system. Candidates are expected to be hands on and experienced on data mining, ranking, clustering, recommendation systems.

As a Senior Data Scientist in the team, you will be working independently on challenging problems, define/measure success metrics for them, as well as contribute towards Design Reviews, ML/Data pipeline reviews for the whole team.

Responsibilities

• End to end ranking of search results
• Document Text/Passage extraction and understanding
• Large Language Models
• AI powered Copilot scenarios
• Compliance and Privacy aware Machine Learning training pipelines at scale
• Personalization of search results
• Related Query Recommendation systems
• Question Answering Recommendation systems

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
• Hands on experience of implementing and shipping production quality Machine Learning models or Data pipelines
• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Prior work/research experience in Search domain is preferable.

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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