Microsoft
Senior Applied Scientist-Ads Monetization
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- Required alternatives: 4+ years with a bachelor's degree, 3+ years with a master's, or 1+ year with a doctorate, or equivalent experience. Additional experience criteria are listed under preferred qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Design, deploy, and evaluate machine-learning systems that improve ad relevance and optimize advertising experiences across Microsoft Ads, Bing, Copilot, and related products.
What you'll do
- Define ad relevance problems across advertising scenarios to improve user and advertiser experiences.
- Develop and improve deep-learning models, including NLP, computer vision, and LLM-based approaches.
- Deploy scalable solutions and analyze offline and online performance to identify improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a listed or related field plus 4+ years of related experience, or master's plus 3+ years, or doctorate plus 1+ year, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred-qualification experience includes 4+ years developing production machine-learning or AI systems using Python, C++, or equivalent languages.
- Ability to work independently in a team to deliver solutions from architecture through implementation.
- The posting lists further specialized experience in NLP/CV, advertising, distributed model training and inference, model evaluation, agentic AI, and responsible AI among preferred qualifications.
Nice to have
- Master's degree plus 6+ years of related experience, or doctorate plus 3+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Peer-reviewed AI or data-science publications; experience in online advertising or distributed training/inference is also listed.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
NLP, computer vision, LLMs, Python, C++, Vision Transformers, SLMs
AI focus
Build and evaluate AI-powered advertising systems using deep learning, NLP, computer vision, LLMs, and agentic AI; improve ad relevance, retrieval, recommendation, ranking, and optimization.
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