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Whole Page Optimization (WPO) team is responsible for delivering best whole page experience for a variety of homepages that Microsoft provides through different products (e.g., Edge browser, Windows, MSN.com). We are a team full of high caliber, talented, passionate developers from different regions around world. The team optimizes for global maxima over engagement, revenue, and retention by organizing homepage components to an optimal prominence and placement using available context, intent, and past behavior. By leveraging personalized ranking and recommendation techniques, we are building the framework to provide the best personalized homepage experience that match users’ interests.

Now we are looking for a strong developer to join our fun and challenging journey. As a member of the WPO team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the design of homepages, and have a direct impact on various products that millions of users use every day. We explore and invent cutting edge methods in statistics, information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, UX framework and distributed systems to solve hard problems. You will have enormous resources at your disposal; high-performance distributed systems with vast amounts (peta-bytes) of raw and processed data from our logs and the tools to work with those data. You have the right environment and strong support to drive your favorite features to solution. We are an extremely agile team and we move very fast from ideas to experimentation, development and deployment through continuous releases throughout the year.

Responsibilities

Leverage state-of-art machine learning and recommendation techniques to provide best personalized experience to end users

Understand user behaviors and define metrics to capture user's satisfaction

Closely work with Devs and PMs in different countries to achieve fast collaboration and agile development

Qualifications

B.S. in Computer Science or related required

At least 3 year of industry experiences in machine learning or NLP

Experience in recommended system is a plus

Solid coding skill and familiar with at least one OOP language: Python/C++/C#/Java

Great design, problem solving, and data analysis skills, with demonstrated passion for quality, performance, and engineering excellence

Motivated and able to work independently as well in a collaborative team setting to research innovative solutions to challenging technical/business problems

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