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Senior Applied Scientist
Microsoft
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 4+ years experience
Hybrid
GBP 74700-122600 yearly / year
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ year(s) related experience OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ year(s) related experience
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying machine learning, NLP, or information retrieval techniques to search or recommendation problems.
- Experience using data analysis and offline/online evaluation to diagnose metrics, user journeys, model behavior and improve product quality.
- Applied ML engineering experience using Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Hands-on experience with dense/vector retrieval and text embeddings, including bi-encoders, approximate nearest-neighbor search, contrastive training, or hard-negative training.
- Familiarity with information retrieval fundamentals and retrieval evaluation, including metrics such as recall@k and nDCG, offline evaluation pipelines, and interpretation of A/B test results.
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