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Posted date: Oct 03, 2024
Category: Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $238,000
Range: $161,600 - $314,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Our team focuses on optimizing ads performance for all advertisers in Microsoft Advertising by bidding on their behalf into real time auctions across our marketplaces. This is done through algorithm development, optimization, and experimental analysis of advertiser strategies and auction mechanisms. In our team, engineers and scientists work together and utilize all sorts of platforms, techniques, and approaches, including but not limited to mathematical modeling and optimization, machine learning, optimal control, and general operation research. We build and develop both online stacks as well as offline workflows to support our algorithm. At its core, our team utilizes signals of user and advertiser intent as well as auction’s characteristic to determine in real-time or near-real-time which ads can enter the auctions. Our work directly impacts billions of dollars in revenue annually.We are looking for a Principal Applied Science Lead to join our team.
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.
We are looking for a Principal Applied Science Lead with development skills and a background in quantitative fields such as statistical machine learning, decision theory, operation research, optimization theory, mathematical modeling, data mining, causal inference, information retrieval, game theory, mechanism design, optimal control. They will play a key role in leading and driving algorithmic improvements to online and offline systems, developing and delivering robust and scalable solutions, making direct impacts on advertisers' experience, and continually increasing the revenue for Microsoft Advertising.
Examples of what you may involve in:
Designing, implementing, and analyzing bidding strategies using techniques from optimization, control theory. Designing and overseeing large-scale, long-term experiments to improve the health of the marketplace using advanced statistics and machine learning. Designing automation algorithms for advertisers using techniques from AI and ML to improve advertisers’ return on investment. Developing models for causal reasoning using techniques from AI, ML, and statistics. Building data pipelines and warehousing solutions to support rapid experimentation, robust metric dashboards, and quick insights and diagnostics.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience in applying any of the following areas in the industry: statistical machine learning, deep learning, data mining, causal inference, information retrieval, game theory, mechanism design, optimization, and Bayesian inference.OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience in applying any of the following areas in the industry: statistical machine learning, deep learning, data mining, causal inference, information retrieval, game theory, mechanism design, optimization, and Bayesian inference.OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience in applying any of the following areas in the industry: statistical machine learning, deep learning, data mining, causal inference, information retrieval, game theory, mechanism design, optimization, and Bayesian inference.OR equivalent experience.3 years of experience with computational advertising.Preferred Qualifications:
10 years of hands-on experience in applying any of the following areas in the industry: statistical machine learning, deep learning, data mining, causal inference, information retrieval, game theory, mechanism design, optimization, and Bayesian inference. 5 years of experience with computational advertising A graduate degree in CS/EE or related quantitative field. 3 years of experience in Automated Bidding or Budget Pacing. Applied Sciences IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17, 2024.
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