Microsoft · 17 hours ago
Applied Scientist
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$101K/yr - $199K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their Core Search and AI team (Bing), focusing on building the next generation of search using advanced AI technologies. The role involves designing and improving large-scale machine learning models for search relevance and ranking, as well as addressing challenges in query and document understanding.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Design, train, and improve large-scale machine learning models for Bing Search relevance and ranking, with a focus on transformer-based and LLM-powered approaches
Own end-to-end model development, including problem formulation, feature design, training, offline evaluation, and online A/B experimentation
Develop and optimize multi-stage ranking stacks (recall, coarse ranking, fine ranking) to deliver high-quality, low-latency search results at global scale
Leverage LLMs for query and document understanding, summarization, representation learning, and grounding to enhance ranking quality
Address cold-start and sparse-data challenges through content understanding, pre-training, and representation sharing
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ 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 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ 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
1+ year(s) experience creating publications (e.g., patents, peer-reviewed academic papers)
Experience building and improving large scale Machine Learning system for search, ads, and recommendation
Research background on Machine Learning, LLM and NLP
Fantastic problem solver: ability to identify and solve problems that the world has not solved before
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (9192)
2024 (9343)
2023 (7677)
2022 (11403)
2021 (7210)
2020 (7852)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
Recent News
2026-01-16
Morningstar.com
2026-01-16
Company data provided by crunchbase