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This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $207k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
Microsoft currently has 1103 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 985 roles with salary data.
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As a Principal Applied Scientist on the Signals Team at Microsoft Ads, you will design and implement large-scale machine learning models to predict user responses to advertisements, driving their deployment into production. Your daily tasks include running A/B tests, analyzing model impact on business KPIs, conducting data exploration for feature improvements, and establishing scalable pipelines for data processing and analytics. You will also mentor junior scientists and stay updated with the latest advancements in machine learning, applying them to enhance the modeling stack. The role requires expertise in transformer-based models, large language models (LLMs), and their production deployment, along with skills in LLM inference optimization and fine-tuning techniques such as SFT, LoRA, and RLHF. You will work within a complex multi-layered model environment, focusing on model quality and evaluation through robust frameworks that monitor for issues like bias and safety.
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