City : Vancouver

Category : See Posting

Industry : Technology

Employer : Microsoft

Are you an ML/big data engineer who wants to enable groundbreaking AI? In the Bing Image Recommendation team, we work with web-scale data and state-of-the-art machine learning, information retrieval, recommendation systems and NLP techniques to empower users to use the web to find relevant images, get inspired, organize, collaborate, and complete tasks.

We are a growing team of talented engineers and scientists. It’s a fun and fast-paced environment where you will be encouraged to learn, grow and collaborate. You will get the chance to impact millions of users and deploy cutting-edge AI across Bing.com, the Bing app, Azure cloud service, Windows and Edge.

We are seeking a highly capable ML Scientist who is passionate about machine learning and driven to make an impact by developing state-of-the-art new technologies in information retrieval and image recommendation.

Responsibilities

As image search machine learning engineer, you will have wide range of responsibilities and opportunities to learn and make impact, which includes but not limited to

• Build efficient platform for model training, evaluation, shipping and monitoring.
• Design and train ML system and model architecture
• Collect data for training
• Define engineer life cycle and drive project forwards through iterative ranker releases
• Understand bing search stack and platform in order to deploy models to production
• Collaborate with other software engineer and data & applied scientist as well as program manager
• Proactively seeks mentorship from others

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience with general purpose programming language (C/C++/C#/Java/Python etc.)
• Experience in the areas of machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining
• Good communication skills and ability to work in collaborative environment
• Passion and self-motivated
• Embrace engineering excellence and delivering quality results at scale.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong machine learning/recommendation systems, computer vision/natural language processing experience and results in academy or industry.
• Experience with devOps concept and and continuous delivery

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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