Data & Applied Scientist II

Do you want to work on a product which touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Are you someone who is passionate about bringing customer obsession and engineering craftsmanship into the product you build? Are you looking to work on large scale websites building a compelling user experience and the frameworks behind the experiences?

The Bing Auto Suggest team is hiring an Applied Scientist who can help us build the next generation of intelligent experiences that would delight our customers.

Responsibilities

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have an ability to mine large data sets with Cosmos, Hadoop or Spark like technologies
• Transform data into innovative features/signals that can improve a machine-learning task
• Build machine learning models and evaluate their quality on real life scenarios
• Prototype new approaches and develop new algorithms using NLP & ML techniques
• Have an ability and willingness to develop code (in C#, Python & SQL) to productionize ML techniques
• Have an ability to self-learn new techniques from textbooks and research papers
• Never compromise on engineering excellence and delivering quality at scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related fields
• At least 1 year of experience (or research projects in lieu of industry experience) in the areas of data science, machine learning, information retrieval or natural language processing
• Proficiency and demonstrable skills using statistical or machine learning programming languages and packages (Python/R etc.)
• Demonstrable skills and experience using SQL or NoSQL data stores
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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. 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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