Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: India, Hyderabad
Job ID: 712355 12126
Product: Search & Advertising
Division: Online Services Division

Are you excited about data and algorithms? Are you excited about applying your computer science skills to cutting edge business problems? Are you excited about building a team of engineers with expertise in machine learning? If the answer is yes, then the adCenter R&D team at the Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) is for you.

AdCenter is Microsoft's online advertising platform. The IDC adCenter team is responsible for various aspects of the product including its Paid Search and Contextual ad offerings. In particular we are driving technology that helps serve the most relevant ads within content pages that in turn provide high return on investment for advertisers and yield for publishers.

We are looking for a leader with demonstrated success in shipping machine learning based technologies along with 8+ years of general software development experience. In this position, you will innovate, design, analyze, evaluate, architect, implement and tune ML models operating on large sets of data in collaboration with top scientists and engineers across Microsoft's global R&D team. In addition to hands on work, you will also be responsible for growing the ML expertise within IDC.

Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas is required - machine learning, statistical analysis of data, information retrieval, web technologies, SQL, large scale data processing, data warehousing and data mining. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing and implementing supervised learning techniques such as classification, regression, ordinal regression and ranking. Candidates must demonstrate ability to select appropriate technique amongst of various ML techniques such as SVMs, Boosting and Logistic Regression. Candidate must also demonstrate practical ML design tradeoffs as well as architectural tradeoffs made in the software design process. Ph.D or Masters with research in Machine Learning, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research or related field are preferred.

For more information feel free to ping VijayNa@microsoft.com

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