Senior Applied Researcher, Microsoft Advertising R&D

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apply online via our career site.

Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with $40 billion of a $600 billion advertising market already online. Microsoft is innovating rapidly to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with a world-class online advertising platform and service. The Microsoft Ads Research & Development team is one of the most strategic and growing teams at Microsoft.

As part of a software company with powerful innovations and part media company with global properties, at Microsoft Ads we bring both our technical and creative side to the table. Through incisive analytics, we know who cares - both when and where. We understand how to get in front of the right people at the strongest point of influence. Above all, we love data and excel at interpreting it for our partners. Collecting valuable information from every campaign and mining it for insights

Doing business on the Internet is not for the faint of heart. In adCenter, we generate billions of dollars in revenue each year and process hundreds of millions of transactions per day, with stagering growth in both revenue and volumes. We provide great value to our clients, but there are others with malicious intent lurking in the dark recesses of the web who attempt to enrich themselves by cheating honest customers with sophisticated and clever schemes. Our job is to defeat them.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with engineering teams and business stakeholders to develop the long term strategy for combatting fraud and improving traffic quality across adCenter;
• Establishing priorities and the tactical plan for implementing this strategy;
• Using data mining and machine learning to design predictive models for detecting various low-quality online traffic patterns;
• Representing Microsoft at industry conferences such as KDD;
• Working with standards bodies to influence standards and ensure compliance; and
• Helping to develop and drive our emergent data mining, modeling and machine learning team.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
Are you ready to fight the good fight? We're looking for a candidate with a strong data mining background focused on machine learning and statistics.

If that sounds like you, we want you to help us develop and manage the long-term strategy for fraud processing across adCenter. Use of stolen credit cards, exploiting our system to steal free advertising, pushing malware to unsuspecting users, sophisticated botnet attacks - we're on the lookout for these and other bad behaviors.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
PhD in field of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics or Operational Research; and 3+ years of software development and applied research experience; OR MS degree in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Mathematics or Operational Research with 8+ yrs of software development and applied research experience. Prior experience with online advertising is preferred.

Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the work place.

This position is located in Bellevue, Washington.

_Contact_:
In order to be formally considered for this position, you must
apply online via our career site.

If you have questions about this position, please contact me at tabaj@microsoft.com. Resumes received via email cannot be considered until you formally apply online.