Description
Summary
Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Principal Applied Scientist at their Hyderabad office. This role sits at the heart of shaping and improving sports experiences on Bing. You will own end-to-end outcomes: turn ambiguous product questions into measurable hypotheses, define success metrics, design experiments, and ship data-driven ML solutions that move customer and business KPIs.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced, self-directed Principal Applied Data Scientist to shape and improve sports experiences on Bing. In this individual contributor role, you will own end-to-end outcomes: turn ambiguous product questions into measurable hypotheses, define success metrics, design experiments, and ship data-driven ML solutions that move customer and business KPIs. You will apply modern NLP/IR and multimodal methods—including training and adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs)—to deliver accurate, fresh, and helpful sports answers and discovery experiences at global scale.
Accountabilities
- Define north-star metrics and guardrails; build measurement plans, offline scorecards, and online A/B tests; interpret results and drive clear ship/iterate decisions.
- Build, train, and adapt LLM/SLM solutions for sports scenarios (prompting, supervised fine-tuning, distillation, and domain adaptation), using disciplined evaluation and error analysis to improve quality, latency, and cost.
The Candidate we're looking for
Experience:
- 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
Technical skills:
- Proficiency in Python (and one of C++/C#/Java preferred) and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow); experience with distributed training/inference is a plus.
Personal attributes:
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior IC: independently define strategy, drive execution across teams, and deliver measurable impact.
Benefits
- Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.