We are looking for a motivated, self-driven ML engineer/scientist to join our mission. Essential attributes and competencies include excellence in scientific thinking and execution, ability to drive efficient experiment definition and investigations, solid skill in developing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and broad scope in solving NLP related engineering problems.

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

• Build and refine machine learning models to solve NLP tasks and productizing the solutions at scale.
• Staying abreast with the SOTA advancements and use them to formulate novel soutions.
• Advancing the state of the art of NLP technologies for real world scenarios.
• Developing novel machine learning and data mining algorithms
• Contribute ideas and techniques to shape decisions and improve product quality metrics.
• Participate in design, implementation and execution with a team of engineers, applied scientists and product managers.
• Collaborate with Program Managers, Architects and stakeholders for workforce planning, demand planning and end-to-end solution design
• Build, mentor, and lead a diverse high-performance team of Data Scientists
• Create clarity, generate energy and deliver the impact
• Ensuring compliance with Security, Privacy, GDPR etc. and performance criteria
• Use data and insights from customer and production to contribute to some technical design and implementation decisions

Qualifications

• B.S or M.S in Computer Science or Math
• 5+ Years of experience in deep learning (extensive work on NLP is a plus)
• 7+ Years of industry experience
• ML fundamentals: Data mining, wrangling, processing, visualization, model training, analysis.
• Expertise in Designing and hands on with Coding
• Software fundamentals: code + integrate models into production services.
• Strong knowledge and skills in machine learning software development and architectures for machine learning (with focus on deep learning).
• Research or Industry experience with one or more of following areas Natural Language Processing (NLP), Document Understanding, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Understanding.
• Experience in building, deploying, and improving large scale Machine Learning models and algorithms in real-world products.
• Proficiency in Python/C++ and deep learning frameworks e.g. Pytorch, Tensorflow.
• Ability to synthesize the research literature, compare/contrast/critique and combine ideas into creating new ML models

• Published work in top-tier conferences & journals is a plus

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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