Senior Applied Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 28, 2024 | |
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OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist with experience to join our fun and challenging journey. Homepages Whole Page Optimization (WPO) team is responsible for delivering best whole page experience for a variety of homepages that Microsoft provides through different products (e.g., Edge browser, MSN.com). We are a team full of high caliber, talented, passionate developers from different regions around world. The team optimizes for global maxima over engagement, revenue, and retention by organizing homepage components to an optimal prominence and placement using available context, intent, and past behavior. By leveraging personalized ranking and recommendation techniques, we are building the framework to provide the best personalized homepage experience that match users' interests.You'll have the opportunity to shape the design of homepages, and have a direct impact on various products that millions of users use every day. We explore and invent cutting edge methods in statistics, information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, UX framework and distributed systems to solve hard problems. You will have enormous resources at your disposal; high-performance distributed systems with vast amounts (peta-bytes) of raw and processed data from our logs and the tools to work with those data. You have the right environment and strong support to drive your favorite features to solution. We are an extremely agile team and we move very fast from ideas to experimentation, development and deployment through continuous releases throughout the year. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLeverage state-of-art machine learning techniques to provide best personalized experience to end users.Originate, implement, and iterate on machine learning features & models to keep improving our product quality.Closely collaborate with different teams within Microsoft to expose best personalized contents to end users, enable agile development & experiments, deliver cross-team impact. | |