Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft

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$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
44 days ago
Closes
Nov 10, 2026

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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

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TL;DR · Senior Applied Scientist

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Signals Modeling team, you will work on developing transformer-based models that predict user interactions with ads across various stages, including clicks and post-click engagement. Your day-to-day responsibilities include driving modeling innovations for ad interaction outcomes under partial feedback, designing data-driven attribution pipelines, and creating robust learning methods for scenarios with sparse or delayed signals. You will also develop multi-task and proxy-signal models to improve offline and online measurement frameworks, translating these advancements into production systems that enhance ad ranking and user experience at scale. The role requires expertise in deep learning, large-scale experimentation, and marketplace economics, along with hands-on experience in Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and a strong background in supervised and multi-task learning. This position offers the opportunity to shape next-generation transformer architectures and deploy models that directly impact one of the world’s largest ads ecosystems.

What you'll do

  • Drive innovations in ad interaction outcome prediction under partial and noisy feedback.
  • Design data-driven attribution pipelines and weak-label generation for robust learning methods.
  • Develop multi-task models and proxy-signal frameworks, enhancing offline and online measurement.
  • Translate modeling advances into production-ready systems impacting ad ranking and user experience.
  • Improve advertiser ROI by refining conversion models and engagement predictions in large-scale ads.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of industry experience building and shipping machine learning models in production.
  • Experience with conversion, outcome, or funnel modeling including post-click and engagement issues.
  • Familiarity with model calibration, reliability analysis, and uncertainty estimation in production systems.
  • Background in causal inference, attribution, and counterfactual evaluation methods.
  • Solid hands-on experience with modern ML models and feature engineering for large datasets.
  • Proven technical leadership in cross-team modeling efforts or platform-level ML systems.
  • Experience designing or operating multi-task / auxiliary-task learning systems.

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