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Imagine shaping the future of local search for millions of users worldwide. At Bing Places, you’ll join a team that powers business entity relevance on the search results page. You’ll work on cutting-edge tools and metrics that ensure users find the most accurate and meaningful local results. Our team thrives on innovation, leveraging large and small language models, and advanced measurement systems to deliver exceptional quality. As a Data Scientist in Bing Places, you will design new relevance metrics, build labeling pipelines, and fine-tune language models to improve search quality. You’ll work on prompt engineering, implement modern language models techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation, and create scalable workflows for measurement and evaluation.
Job Responsibility:
Design and implement new relevance metrics to measure and improve local search quality
Develop and optimize LLM/SLM labeling pipelines for high-throughput, consistent quality judgments
Engineer and fine-tune prompts for LLMs to enhance query understanding and classification accuracy
Apply modern LLM techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation for improved grounding and relevance
Build scalable workflows and dashboards for measurement, evaluation cycles, and quality checks
Analyze failure modes and improve prompt rubrics to reduce defect rates and enhance labeling consistency
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate metrics and labeling systems into production environments
Requirements:
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND relevant data-science experience
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND relevant data-science experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND relevant data-science experience
OR equivalent experience
Relevant years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter