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Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billions of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day. The rapid growth of online advertising has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand computationally intelligent and scalable algorithms. Eventually Computational Advertising has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field that involves complex software engineering, system design, information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and micro-economics, to solve challenging problems that arise in online advertising.
We are looking for Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in areas like Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference to join our team at Microsoft Ads India. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on some of the most complex and high-impact challenges in online advertising, where your innovations will directly shape user experience, advertiser success, and the future of the digital advertising ecosystem. We need people who have trained and shipped large scale production models and have 7 or more years of relevant applied science experience. In this team, you will be working on the highly reliable online auction simulation platform and demand intelligence - Microsoft AdInsights that empowers advertisers to optimize their campaigns. You will analyze large amount of advertiser data, improve existing models and extract insights that advertiser can take action on. Excellent machine learning and causal inference skills are needed for this role. This is part of the core auction engine team that drives money for Microsoft while ensures best experience for users and advertiser ROI. This is a rare opportunity to influence technology development in an important growth area at Microsoft. You will work towards empowering the demand/advertisers to be intelligent in collaboration with top scientists and engineers across Microsoft’s global R&D team and improve the long term health of the ads ecosystem in Microsoft.
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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