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Senior Applied Science Lead

Microsoft· Applied Sciences
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Egypt, Cairo, CairoFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Role focused on designing, building, and deploying machine learning and generative AI systems for product discovery, ranking, personalization, and reasoning across Copilot, Bing, and Edge Shopping surfaces. Combines applied ML, generative AI, and product experience with ownership of core shopping intelligence in user-facing experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and productionize machine learning models for product discovery, ranking, recommendation, and personalization using large-scale commerce and behavioral data.
  • Develop LLM-based systems for conversational shopping, including prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, tool orchestration, and grounding against structured commerce data.
  • Address quality and trust challenges such as hallucination risk, stale data, and recommendation reliability.
  • Define evaluation frameworks and experimentation strategies for conversational and proactive shopping scenarios, including offline metrics and online experiments.
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, and design teams to translate models into low-latency, reliable Copilot experiences.
  • Provide technical leadership for applied science within Copilot Shopping through design reviews, mentoring, and setting quality standards.
  • Contribute to model governance and Responsible AI practices to ensure trustworthy and compliant systems.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.
  • Hands on Machine Learning experience.

Skills

Required:Machine learningLLM / Generative AI
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