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Microsoft Advertising is building the next generation of intelligent recommender systems that power how users discover relevant ads and how advertisers connect with customers across search, native, display, video, and emerging AI experiences. This role is centered on retrieval, matching, marketplace optimization, ad-quality, fraud and abuse detection, content understanding, and emerging foundation-model-powered experiences. The role involves shaping and applying LLMs, large retrieval models, multimodal systems, and agentic or deep-research-style workflows to high-impact advertising scenarios at scale.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the design and development of machine learning models and algorithms for large-scale recommendation in Ads
Define and drive the applied science roadmap for recommender systems that improve relevance, engagement, marketplace quality, efficiency, and business impact
Shape technical strategy across multiple horizons, balancing near-term product wins with long-term investments in modern AI approaches
Drive cross-team scientific leadership by partnering with product, platform, and partner science teams to drive innovations and also push them from research into production at scale
Mentor senior scientists and engineers, raise the technical bar across the organization, and contribute to a culture of scientific rigor, innovation, and engineering excellence
Represent the organization through technical reviews, publications, and strategic cross-company collaboration
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of related experience in applied science, machine learning, recommender systems, information retrieval, ranking, or related areas
OR Master’s Degree in a related field AND 8+ years of related experience
OR Doctorate in a related field AND 5+ years of related experience
OR equivalent experience
Deep expertise in one or more of the following: retrieval, ranking, marketplace optimization, large-scale machine learning
Proven experience building, shipping, and scaling machine learning models in production environments with measurable business impact
Strong communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Nice to have:
Experience in recommendation systems, or other large-scale ml driven online platforms
Experience training and adapting SLMs and large retrieval models, including pre-training and post-training
Familiarity with large-scale distributed training, online inference systems, and latency-sensitive production services