Join Our Team as an Applied Scientist - Maps at Microsoft in Belgrade, Serbia

Are you passionate about delivering innovative products and machine learning solutions that make a daily impact on millions of users? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility, and diverse environment? If so, the Applied Scientist role with the Microsoft Maps team in Belgrade, Serbia might be perfect for you!

About the Team

The Applied Science Map Service team at Microsoft is at the forefront of engineering and applied science. Our work revolves around creating cutting-edge deep learning models and pioneering conversational map and direction search experiences. We are focused on utilizing attention architectures, graph neural networks, learning-to-rank, and other advanced ML models to enhance search services and user experiences.

Impact Areas

• Scalable query understanding and annotation solutions.
• Matching, retrieval, and ranking of map and direction search results.
• Attention and GNN approaches for ETA prediction in routing.

Microsoft's Mission

Our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We work with a growth mindset, strive to innovate, and collaborate to achieve our shared goals. We stand by our values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from design through implementation, experimentation, and deployment.
• Identify and preprocess data for deriving user insights and training large-scale models.
• Develop end-to-end machine learning and deep learning algorithms leveraging diverse data sources like text, location map search data, and routing road network data.
• Prototype, design, and develop fundamental technologies to enhance search experiences for both consumers and enterprises.
• Collaborate in a diverse, geographically distributed team environment.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field, OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to clearly communicate and simplify complex ideas.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant internship or prior work experience in statistics, predictive analytics, research, or working with maps data.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 and regulations.

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