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Lead the vision and execution for next-generation agentic AI products—designing generative experiences across search, chat and other agentic experiences. As a Principal Product Manager (PM) for the Search & AI team, you’ll architect solutions that reason, plan, and act across applications, the web, and the OS, empowering users to accomplish complex tasks with intelligence and reliability.
You’ll join a high-impact team that uses the cutting edge of generative model and applies to high-value product experiences across Search and Copilot. Search & AI Experiences team thrives on rapid innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and a culture that values curiosity, autonomy, and bold problem-solving. We work across a range of experiences spanning from user intent understanding, semantic understanding of queries and documents, vector-based information retrieval, generating card answers and user experiences and generative query suggestions. We also work on leading edge of Responsible AI techniques to ensure high quality user interactions. We seek PMs who have shipped 0-to-1 agentic products at leading AI startups or labs, great product sense and user experience instincts, driven growth or mindshare in the AI space, and excel in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
If you’re energized by building the future of generative AI experiences and want to shape how intelligent agents empower millions, we want to hear from you!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) 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. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Product Manager, you will:
- Define and deliver on the strategicroadmap and vision across multiple initiatives.
- Identify user workflows where AI adds clear value, basing decisions on data and user feedback.
- Turn model capabilities into specific product features, define MVPs, and refine them using user and business metrics.
- Work directly with applied science, engineering, and design to turn AI research into practical products that scale and serve users well.
- Create and use evaluation methods to track product quality, user experience, and safety throughout development.
- Write clear documents to keep stakeholders aligned on product goals, priorities, and decisions.
- Promote adoption by representing Microsoft AI at industry events, showing how technical features translate into user benefits and growth.
- Make informed decisions in uncertain situations, manage risks and incidents, and support continuous improvement through postmortem review.
- Be the thought-leader for driving DAU growth across teams.
- Prioritize features to maximize DAU growth – build and partner with feature teams.
- Envision and implement distribution tactics for the product growth– these include cross org execution of entry points, external partnerships for mobile & desktop DAU and other growth hacks.
- Create win-win partnership pitches and evolve strategic partnerships to drive growth across industry and research labs.
- Manage, implement and deliver cross-org growth initiatives through collaboration & evangelism.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience launching 0-to-1 products (from concept to market) in a consumer-facing product environment.
- 3+ years of experience building products that leverage AI/ML technologies.
- Experience managing and shipping products in an AI lab or an AI-focused startup.
- Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, research) to deliver user-facing features.
- Familiarity with experimentation tools, data analytics, and strong in vibe coding / working knowledge of coding (Python, JavaScript, SQL).
- Excellent analytical, communication, presentation and negotiation skills with cross-functional organizations, customers and stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, possesses a high energy level to react to situations quickly and decisively, possessing self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position, not afraid to make decisions.
- Passionate & capable of driving cross-functional initiatives – product features, distribution tactics & partnerships.
- Demonstrated expertise in growing consumer products of large scale globally.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Are you looking to work on cutting-edge large-scale AI services that can power the next-gen AI search? Are you passionate about modern technologies and latency optimizations and analytics to light up those scenarios?
The Search Technology Center in India is looking for a full-stack developer who can help us build the next gen Grounding solution that can change how the world interacts with AI search. Search engines serve billions of queries per day and generate huge amount of user event data every day. We are a team of engineers and scientists that is tasked with the responsibility of the best Grounding that can help create the most powerful AI search experiences.
As a Software Engineer II on this team, you will be responsible for designing, coding, and owning software and services to enable high performant, delightful search experiences and applications. You will be engineering these solutions while enabling solid engineering practices including CI-CD, automation tooling, and telemetry insights across our endpoints. You will be working in a collaborative and fun environment with peers across disciplines including PMs, designers, developers, and data scientists.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) 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. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will:
- Work on high QPS, low latency online services.
- Be able to think end-to-end to provide the most optimal solutions.
- Architect, design and develop secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.
- Work closely with design and PM teams, able to collaborate across disciplines.
- Mentor other developers on the team. Participate and drive code/design reviews.
- Help the team in making decisions on adopting the appropriate technical stack.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years in building online services.
- Experience working as a full-stack developer.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years in building online services.
- Experience with releasing 3P APIs.
- Experience with latency optimizations.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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As a Principal Product Manager on the MAI Suggestions team, within the STCI organization at Microsoft AI (MAI), you will lead a significant product area within MAI Suggestions, initially focused on Experiences and Growth. This role is designed for an experienced individual contributor who operates with high autonomy, thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, and drives meaningful customer and business impact through strong product judgment and cross-team leadership.
While the initial charter is centered on user experiences and growth, the role is designed to evolve across product areas within the Suggestions team. You are expected to build deep product fundamentals, reusable frameworks, and domain understanding that enable you to take on different problem spaces over time (e.g., quality, personalization, platform, or new experiences), based on business priorities.
You will work closely with engineering, design, data science, and partner teams to define product direction, lead complex initiatives, and deliver step-function improvements in engagement, adoption, and task success across MAI surfaces such as Search, Browsing, and Copilot experiences.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Own product direction and outcomes for a major area within MAI Suggestions, initially focused on Experiences and Growth—from problem framing through execution to measurable customer and business impact.
- Set and sustain a high‑velocity product operating rhythm by creating clarity, generating energy, and reducing friction—accelerating decision‑making and setting a high bar for pace, ownership, and execution across cross‑functional teams.
- Enable rapid shipping, learning, and iteration by leveraging AI‑powered tooling and tight cross‑functional collaboration to compress delivery cycles, increase experimentation throughput, and deliver impact ahead of the curve.
- Identify and lead high‑impact opportunities to improve user engagement, activation, retention, and task success using data, experimentation, and deep customer insights.
- Frame ambiguous problem spaces effectively, define clear success metrics, and translate insights into well‑prioritized product bets and roadmaps.
- Lead cross‑team and cross‑org initiatives, influencing partner teams to deliver cohesive, high‑quality experiences across MAI surfaces.
- Partner closely with engineering and data science to make informed trade‑offs across UX quality, velocity, scalability, and model performance.
- Define and evolve metrics, evaluation frameworks, and experiments to assess experience quality, growth impact, and long‑term value.
- Act as a product thought leader, shaping principles, best practices, and reusable approaches that scale beyond a single problem area.
- Communicate product strategy, trade‑offs, and outcomes to senior stakeholders, driving alignment and informed decision‑making.
- Mentor and raise the bar for other PMs through design reviews, strategic guidance, and shared ownership of product excellence.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Proven track record of leading large-scope initiatives with measurable customer and business impact.
- Strong product judgment and strategic thinking, with the ability to connect customer needs to product direction and business outcomes.
- Deep customer empathy and UX intuition, especially in consumer-scale or AI-powered experiences.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using data, experimentation, and evaluation frameworks to drive decisions.
- Experience influencing without authority, aligning senior stakeholders across teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Experience mentoring other product managers is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
- 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Principal Applied Scientist
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As the advertising ecosystem expands, sophisticated adversarial actors are leveraging generative AI, automation, and distributed infrastructure to bypass safety controls. The Ads Trust and Safety team requires a Principal Applied Scientist to contribute to the research and technical strategy for Threat Modelling team. We are looking for a security domain expert who can advance the state of the art in Threat Modeling, and Adversarial Defense. This role involves transitioning trust mechanisms from static verification to dynamic, behavioral-based integrity systems. You will architect solutions to detect and neutralize high-complexity fraud vectors eg phishing, Payment fraud, cloaking, malware distribution, token misuse, and authentication etc ensuring the ads platform remains safe for users, advertisers and publishers.
The primary success metric is the robust identification and mitigation of advanced abuse vectors with minimal impact on legitimate advertiser friction and ad-serving latency.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Strategic Threat Modeling: Develop and maintain comprehensive adversarial frameworks to map the lifecycle of emerging threats, from account compromise (ATO) to malicious payload delivery.
- Evolution of Advertiser Trust: Advance the continuous, signal-based security protocol. Research and implement behavioral biometrics and Proof of Liveness models to detect synthetic identities and coordinated fraud rings.
- Adversarial Research: Proactively identify “unknown unknown” vulnerabilities through red-teaming and exploratory data analysis, developing models to predict attacker behavior before widespread exploitation.
- Technical Leadership: Drive the technical roadmap for integrity and security, mentoring senior engineers and influencing cross-functional stakeholders on security investment priorities.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Mathematics, or a related field, with 10+ years of related experience.
- Deep technical expertise in Cybersecurity, Anti-Abuse, or Adversarial Machine Learning.
- Strong programming skills in C++ or Python (at least one is required), with experience in building production-quality security or ML systems.
- Hands-on experience in one or more of the following:
- Web Security standards and Authentication Protocols (OAuth, OIDC).
- Malware analysis, de-obfuscation, or reverse engineering.
- Building fraud detection models at scale.
- Proven ability to design and implement defense mechanisms against complex abuse vectors (e.g., botnets, synthetic identity, evasion/cloaking).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience articulating complex security risks to business and product leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in an Adversarial/Trust & Safety role at a major internet platform or cybersecurity firm.
- Familiarity with the Ad-Tech stack (RTB, OpenRTB) and associated fraud incentives.
- Background in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for fraud ring detection or behavioral biometrics.
- Track record of impact via security research publications, patents, or contributions to industry security standards.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Are you looking to work on cutting-edge large-scale AI services that can power the next-gen AI search and Copilot experiences responsibly? Are you passionate about Deep Learning and latest AI technologies to ensure they remain safe, fair, and reliable while lighting up those scenarios?
Our team uses latest SOTA deep learnt models to prepare safety mechanisms for Bing and Copilot. Doing this at web-scale impacts billions of queries per day and millions of users. If you are excited and passionate about running end to end experiments focused on safety, creating substantial impact, you will find home in our team.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist who is excited to work on ML/DL models capable of working on an internet scale. An ideal candidate will have extensive Machine/Deep Learning knowledge with proven track record in solving complex real-world ML/DL problems, specifically in areas related to fairness, or model safety. In addition, the candidate will have expert knowledge of one or more ML/DL frameworks and a deep understanding of the different types of algorithms and their applications with hands-on experience in implementing scalable solutions. We hire people excited to solve the hardest problems, eager to lead within a larger team of data scientists and engineers and ready to make an impact on how the web works.
As a team, we leverage the diverse backgrounds and experiences of passionate engineers, scientists, and program managers to help us realize our goal of making the world smarter and more productive. We believe great products are built by inclusive teams of customer-obsessed individuals who trust each other and work closely together. We collaborate regularly across the company & academia to find technological breakthroughs.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) 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. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Developing novel machine learning and data mining algorithms.
- Designing and developing solutions that respond in real time.
- Building data quality checks and re-usable modules for the training.
- Hosting ML models with production-ready code.
- Designing and executing offline/online experiments.
- Advancing the state of the art of NLP technologies for real world scenarios.
- Investigating and solving NLP accuracy and robustness issues across all processing chains, including model development, test and quality control, deployment, and user feedback stages.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
- OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of professional experience applying Deep learning, Machine Learning concepts in real world applications.
- Excited to work as part of diverse team and collaborate across geographies.
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Solid research and/or development experience with machine learning, NLP and data mining.
- Experience in architecting, developing, and delivering advanced NLP projects.
- Customer focused, strategic, drives for results, is self-motivated, and has a propensity for action.
- Fantastic problem solver: ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before.
- Proven track record on shipping products/services with high quality.
- Confrence publication in NLP/ML.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Microsoft Advertising is a rapid-growing business powering global advertisers across search, display, and emerging AI-driven channels. Our CRM team builds next-generation customer relationship management solutions that unify advertiser data, enable intelligent workflows, and deliver actionable insights across sales, marketing, and service. If you’re passionate about AI innovation, Copilot experiences, and building systems that empower thousands of sellers and marketers worldwide, this is your opportunity to make an impact as a Principal Software Engineering Manager. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Lead Engineering Teams: – Recruit, develop, and manage a team of software engineers delivering high-quality CRM solutions.
- Set Technical Direction: – Define architecture for scalable, secure CRM systems and AI integration.
- Establish best practices for performance, reliability, and compliance.
- Lead AI Innovation into the CRM system: – Oversee the integration with AI-powered insights and alerts.
- Leverage ML model integration for personalization and predictive analytics.
- Enable efficient sales workflows powered by AI and agentic solutions.
- Ensure Delivery Excellence: – Manage execution, prioritize resources, and align with business goals.
- Influence Cross-Org Strategy: – Collaborate with senior leaders to shape product vision and technical investments.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python – OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles.
- Proven track record in managing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
- Solid architectural skills for distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in Azure.
- Experience with CRM platforms and customer data models.
- Solid understanding of AI/ML concepts and enterprise integration patterns.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: – Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Microsoft AI is a customer-first organization building AI powered products in service of our customer’s business goals. The world is changing rapidly during this AI platform shift and we need Product Managers who can live in the future and bring back clarity to the present to guide our work.
As a Product Manager for Microsoft AI, you will help businesses that want to grow and expand their business using our products, data, and services through advertising and new business models that unlock AI-first products. This role requires consistent knowledge and deep awareness of the emerging AI industry to develop new products as we have the freedom and flexibility to use the best technology in service of our customer.
We work within Microsoft AI (MAI), an organization responsible for Copilot, Bing, Edge, MSN, and other AI-first products. The organization has all the ingredients needed for success with Product, Engineering, Research, and Go To Market functions partnering as peers with shared goals. This enables close collaboration and rapid decision making.
One of the reasons Microsoft AI consistently brings innovative products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. We work closely with talented engineers, designers, marketers, creatives, customers, partners, and go-to-market teams to design and develop products tailored for our customer’s benefit. We run lean, obsess about users, and make decisions based on evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) 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. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Drive building world-class AI applications that will delight consumers and deliver business results .
- Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.
- Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, customer-first, product development cycle.
- Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with UX, Data Science, Engineering, AI research, and Product Marketing teams.
- Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.
- Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications.
- Embody our Culture and Values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leading AI product teams and building AI products.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leading product teams building products in advertising, privacy, conversational AI, generative AI, or transferrable skills.
- Experience building consumer products leveraging Machine Learning or Large Language Models.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and adapt to changing requirements and deadlines.
- Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
- Experience with data analytics and experimentation tools. Working knowledge of SQL and coding skills (Python, Javascript).
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Every day at Microsoft, we bring an insatiable curiosity to our work, continually challenging ourselves to rethink what is possible and to push beyond existing boundaries. We build on past innovations to create what comes next—shaping the future and empowering billions of people around the world.
Online advertising is one of the fastest‑growing sectors of the internet economy today. Search engines, web publishers, major advertising networks, and ad exchanges serve billions of ad impressions daily, generating terabytes of user interaction data in the process. This rapid expansion has created significant opportunities, alongside complex technical challenges that require intelligent, scalable solutions. The field of computational advertising has emerged as a multidisciplinary field that draws on information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, linear algebra, and microeconomics to address the demanding problems inherent in modern online advertising.
We are a team that focuses on keeping the Microsoft Advertising ecosystem safe for users and compliant with policies.
You should be independent, curious, and have an attitude of can learn and can get it done. You need to be open (and potentially familiar) to service and business operations responsibilities, and able to perform data analysis at different scales, be open to / interested in quick coding to get analysis done or automate fixed processes. Given open ended business or analysis or introductory data science problems, you should be able to think structurally and form hypothesis / strategies in a reasonable manner. Having the ability to undertake precise communication with different types of audiences is a plus. The team is based out of Bangalore, but you may work from different locations in India, as per current flexible work policy of Microsoft.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Analyze revenue and quality impact of change in models or policies used to evaluate Ads.
- Perform exploratory analyses to react to emergent threats to suggest approaches to deal with them
- Strong communication skills and ability to modify presentation as per audience.
- Productionize analyses into dashboards for monitoring and alerting
- Ability to independently run analyses and investigations.
Automation and Engineering:
Inclination to explore mechanisms to automate analysis steps, undertake engineering orchestration, which may require ability to do quick coding and or learning aspects of engineering infrastructure, as also exploring Machine Learning Solutions / Approaches
Qualifications
Qualification
- 6+ years of relevant experience is expected but for exceptional people experience is not a bar.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM or Business-related field with strong emphasis on data analytics; again we are open to being flexible for exceptional people.
- Knowledge of SQL or something similar, is important.
- Knowledge of Python and / or R in general coding as well as in data analysis has high weightage.
- Knowledge of basic and / or advanced statistical methods / knowledge of machine learning disciplines is a plus.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Technical competence & strong analytical skills
- Having worked in a web search related company 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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Are you looking to work on cutting-edge large-scale AI services that can power the next-gen AI search? Are you passionate about Deep Learning and latest AI technologies light up those scenarios?
Our team uses latest NLP deep learnt models to prepare Grounding data for AI search efforts. Doing this at web-scale impacts billions of queries per day and millions of users. If you are excited and passionate about running end to end experiments, creating substantial impact, you will find home in our team.
We are looking for a Applied Scientist II who is excited to work on ML/DL models capable of working on an internet scale. An ideal candidate will have good Machine/Deep Learning knowledge with hands on experience in solving complex real-world ML/DL problems. In addition, the candidate will have knowledge of one or more ML/DL frameworks and a deep understanding of the different types of algorithms and their applications with hands-on experience in implementing at least a few of the solutions. We hire people excited to solve the hard problems, eager to work in a larger team of data scientists and engineers and ready to make an impact on how the web works.
As a team, we leverage the diverse backgrounds and experiences of passionate engineers, scientists, and program managers to help us realize our goal of making the world smarter and more productive. We believe great products are built by inclusive teams of customer-obsessed individuals who trust each other and work closely together. We collaborate regularly across the company both to find technological breakthroughs from groups like Microsoft Research to infusing AI into the rest of Microsoft products like Office.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) 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. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a motivated, self-driven Applied Scientist II 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.
Your responsibilities include:
- Developing novel machine learning and data mining algorithms.
- Designing and developing solutions that respond in real time.
- Build data quality checks and re-usable modules for the training.
- Host ML models with production-ready code.
- Designing and executing offline/online experiments.
- Advancing the state of the art of NLP technologies for real world scenarios.
- Investigating and solving NLP accuracy and robustness issues across all processing chains, including model development, test and quality control, deployment, and user feedback stages.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s/PhD degree in CS/EE or related fields with knowledge in NLP, Machine Learning and Data Mining.
- 3-6 years of professional experience applying Deep learning, Machine Learning concepts in real world applications.
- Excited to work as part of diverse team and collaborate across geographies.
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong research and/or development experience with machine learning, NLP and data mining.
- Experience in architecting, developing, and delivering advanced NLP projects is a strong plus.
- Customer focused, strategic, drives for results, is self-motivated, and has a propensity for action.
- Fantastic problem solver: ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before.
- Proven track record on shipping products/services with high quality.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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What if your job description were simply “make tomorrow better?” Every day at Microsoft, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the workplace, challenging ourselves to reimagine what it is and what it can be. We build on what’s come before to create what’s next. We help shape the future and we empower billions of people around the globe.
We are the computational advertising team in the AI & Research organization at Microsoft. We are looking for candidates with research and applied experience in machine learning related areas. Search advertising is a $100 billion market worldwide. Microsoft’s Bing search engine supports over 30% of desktop search in the US, with similarly significant presence in many other countries.
Responsibilities
We are a team of applied scientists working on machine learning components in the whole sponsored search stack. Our team works on problems related to machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, multi-arm bandit, optimization, information retrieval, and auction theory, among others. Our work entails building large-scale machine learning systems for ad matching, filtration, ranking, and multi objective optimization, and several other ML-driven business problems. You will design, implement, analyze, tune complex algorithms and ML systems and the supporting infrastructure for operating on large datasets. You will collaborate with top machine learning scientists and engineers in delivering direct business impact. We’re looking for sound understanding and insight into productionizing machine learning models in large-scale systems, an ability to pick up new technical areas, as well as a commitment to developing, delivering, and supporting algorithms in production.
Qualifications
MS/BS in CS/EE, mathematical or machine learning related disciplines, with 10 or more years of experience
Solid understanding of probability, statistics, machine learning, data science
A/B testing & analysis of ML models, and optimizing models for accuracy
Experience with Hadoop, Spark, or other distributed computing systems for large-scale training & prediction with ML models
End-to-end system design: data analysis, feature engineering, technique selection & implementation, debugging, and maintenance in production
Experience implementing machine learning algorithms or research papers from scratch
Experience with TensorFlow/PyTorch and deep learning models is a plus
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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