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The Product

The rapid growth of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI), is fueled by organizations across the globe investing in leveraging low-code/no-code development models to accelerate their digital transformation ambitions. Power Platform is a strategic new growth area for Microsoft, but more importantly, it is a disruptor technology that is giving “Citizen access” to broader set of users in an enterprise, to create next generation of business productivity software via radically simplified experience and without requiring extensive and costly training. It is transforming careers of ‘citizen developers’, making pro-developers far more productive and helping IT finally innovate at the pace that their businesses expect. To boost Power Platform to scale to millions of 'citizen developers', we are investing in Power Portals – an early emergent-stage product within Power Platform suite currently used by customers to enable collaboration with users both internal and external to their organizations. We are earlyin our journey to innovate on Power Pages product and shape it into a thriving standalone customer-facing business to drive incremental revenue and value for Power Platform.

The Team

We are passionate about building things that help other teams and solving problems that span across the org. We collaborate closely with many different teams and pursue creative solutions to help make them successful. We embrace modern tooling and approaches, and we’re optimizing our engineering for building cloud first web applications with a faster cadence of releases to deliver innovation at an exciting pace. Our responsibilities span across multiple key areas, including building administration, governance and security experiences and features along with the engineering infrastructure to develop, build, and deploy complex business data rich applications. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team in a feature-crew setting.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Applied Scientist and AI architect, you will have the opportunity to impact millions of users and help them be more productive and efficient by building the next set of intelligence features around search, personalization, and recommendations in Power Pages. You will have an opportunity to build contextual AI experiences for end users on Power Pages. You will be empowered to drive innovation by producing new and exciting ideas to creatively solve issues, as well as actively look for opportunities to improve product quality.

Qualifications

• A master's degree in the areas of Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.

• Proficient industry experience in the areas above or publication record.

• Proficiency in Python, Pyspark, or C#

• Excellent problem solving and data analysis skills, with expertise in developing or applying predictive analytics, statistical modelling, data mining, or machine learning algorithms, especially at scale.

• Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for diversity and inclusion.

• Customer obsession and passionate about product impact

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to simplify and explain complex ideas.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Math, Physics, Statistics, or related areas.

• Experience in the application of Language Models and Transformers.

• A publication record in top AI venues will be considered a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .