This role is for a data and applied scientist on the Bing Travel team. We are building a world class Travel solution spanning the whole spectrum of user's travel journey.  We are looking for strong data scientist with a background and passion for generating experiences and features to power the best of web Travel solution. 

This travel solution spans across multiple canvases and the role involves understanding user intent, history and making customized experiences, based on recommendation, leading with great image, video, and virtual experiences, and providing insights drawn from analytics. Our experiences are seen by millions of users per day today and we expect to keep growing that significantly to create useful and personalized insights at web scale. These span across the whole spectrum from travel inspiration, destination exploration, planning trips, booking, and experiencing stages. This is a great time for a strong data & applied scientist to come on board and become a key part of this journey.

Are you excited about building world-class software with finely crafted experience to address real need of millions of users across the globe while continuously learning, having fun, and maintaining work-life balance? 

Our Bing India team comprises of highly motivated engineers, product managers and data-scientists building end-to-end web-scale and enterprise-scale AI systems. Together we develop and deliver robust, state of art and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios through Bing. In your journey with Microsoft, you will be applying your analytical science skills to innovate, design and implement solutions for cutting edge web scale problems. 

We are looking for hiring talented, energetic, creative, and passionate data & applied scientist with experience in developing high-quality software products/services. 

We would like you to watch a short video on what we do and get a peek into our culture on Instagram (@lifeatstci) and below is more about this job and what we are looking for. Happy applying!!

Visit us at https://aka.ms/STCI 

Responsibilities

1. Develop strong data engineering pipeline to support rich content and experiences.
2. Own complex features/user stories and deliver them with the highest quality exemplifying role model behaviors
3. Deliver trustworthy and differentiated experiences to Travel users on Microsoft canvases 
   Develop product using Azure and travel related queries for exploration/planning/booking travel journey powered by Bing query traffic. 
4. Fundamentals: champion and set example in security, supportability, usability, performance, accessibility of the product. 
5. Features: plan, design, develop and deliver multiple end-users facing features as data scientist.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• S or M.S in AI/ML/Statistics/Computer Science or related analytical fields
• 2+ years of professional Data Scientist experience
• 2+ years of professional Data Engineer experience
• 1+ years of professional experience designing and developing software or services

Preferred Skillsets and Experience: 

1. Strong Analytical & Problem-Solving skills 
2. Good communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills
3. Passion for new technologies, learning and adapting quickly, end user quality and customer satisfaction.
4. Programming or scripting experience leveraging industry standard ML and Data Science libraries (Python, C# etc.) 
5. Experience working with large volume of unstructured data including images, text and videos.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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