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title: Principal Applied Science Manager - Foundation Models, Agents & Trust Systems
description: Microsoft Advertising serves ads across search, native, display, video, commerce, and emerging AI-powered experiences. Protecting these ecosystems requires decision systems that can understand advertisers, content, behavior, intent, landing pages, identities, and marketplace activity across every modality. We are seeking a Principal Applied Science Manager to lead the science organization responsible for risk, editorial quality, moderation, policy enforcement, and Responsible AI across Microsoft Advertising. The team will build the next generation of intelligent decision systems, including: Foundation models for advertiser behavior and risk. Foundation moderation models spanning text, image, video and multimodal experiences. Deep-research agents that investigate complex cases, gather evidence, reason across signals, and assist automated and human decision-making. Tiered enforcement systems that select the right model, workflow, and level of review based on risk, severity, confidence, latency, and cost. Human-in-the-loop that combine advanced AI capabilities with expert judgment and accountability. Continuous evaluation and audit systems that measure quality, fairness, safety, robustness, and business impact. Responsibilities Define and drive the multi-year science strategy for risk, editorial quality, moderation, policy enforcement, and Responsible AI across Microsoft Advertising. Build, lead, and grow a high-performing team of applied scientists working across foundation models, multimodal understanding, behavior modeling, agentic systems etc. Development foundation behavior models that understand advertisers, accounts, domains, identities, payments, content, and activity over time. Develop foundation moderation models that generalize across policies, products, languages, markets, and modalities. Build Deep Research agents that can investigate complex cases, retrieve and assess evidence, reason across multiple signals, identify contradictions, and support high-qual…
date posted: 2026-07-27T11:20:33.255Z
valid through: 2026-09-30T14:04:43.281Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Computer Science
skills: Statistics
skills: Electrical Engineering
skills: Machine Learning
skills: Foundation Models
skills: Agentic Systems
skills: Multimodal Understanding
skills: Content Moderation
skills: Risk Scoring
skills: Advertising
skills: Search
skills: Commerce
skills: Recommendations
skills: Financial Risk
skills: Cybersecurity
hiring organization: Microsoft
  type: Organization
  ticker symbol: MSFT
  founding date: 1975
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 228000
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Bengaluru
    address region: India
    address country: IN
employment type: FULL_TIME