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Senior Applied Scientist - Ads Monetization

Microsoft· Applied Sciences
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Microsoft Monetization is building AI-powered advertising and commerce experiences across Search, Audience, Shopping, Copilot, and agentic surfaces. The role focuses on end-to-end ML and optimization for ads products, leveraging NLP, CV, LLMs, Generative AI, and agentic AI to improve advertising experiences and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Defining the ad relevance problem across different ad scenarios to optimize both the user and advertiser experience.
  • Driving algorithmic and modeling improvements to the system using primarily deep learning techniques from NLP and computer vision, including the latest LLM models.
  • Deploying robust and scalable solutions to continuously improve ad relevance.
  • Analyzing model and system performance to identify opportunities based on offline and online testing.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Ad relevance modelingDeep learning for NLP and CVProduction ML systemsOnline/offline evaluation
Nice to have:Agentic AI / tool use and multi-step workflowsResponsible AI practices
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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