Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft Corporation • Redmond, WA, United States • Posted June 10, 2026

Location Redmond, WA
Job Type Full-time
Category other-general
Posted June 10, 2026
**Overview**

Our Signals Modeling team builds the intelligence that powers how the advertising marketplace understands user behavior, measures impact and optimizes outcomes from initial impressions through downstream conversions and long-term advertiser value.

We develop large-scale learning systems that infer intent and causal effects from incomplete and noisy feedback, enabling principled decision-making across ranking, bidding, pricing, and budget allocation. Our work sits at the foundation of marketplace optimization, where accurate attribution and measurement directly influence billions in advertising spend.

The team designs and operates state-of-the-art modeling platforms spanning representation learning, weak-supervision, multi-objective training, calibration, and rigorous experimentation. We transform sparse engagement signals into reliable learning targets and build models that remain robust under delayed conversions, selection bias, and rapidly shif...

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