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Applied Scientist

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and apply machine learning, deep learning, and multimodal AI techniques to solve problems in image indexing, content understanding, selection, and ranking.

Role type

Applied Scientist (Multimodal AI & Search)

Builds

AI-powered platform capabilities for multimedia content discovery, near real-time indexing systems, and production ML models for document understanding and ranking.

Domain

Multimedia, Search, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, Deep learning, Multimodal AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), Computer vision, Natural language processing, Large-scale data analysis, Experimentation design, Model evaluation, Big Data technologies, Responsible AI practices

Preferred skills

Publications in major ML/IR/NLP/CV conferences (ICML, NIPS, SIGIR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, KDD), Innovation in generative AI

Technologies

LLMs, SLMs, Multimodal models, Big Data technologies

Responsibilities

Design and implement ML models for document understanding and content discovery; Conduct large-scale data analysis to improve index quality and relevance; Develop robust evaluation methodologies and analyze experiment results; Contribute to near real-time indexing systems; Document experiments and communicate findings with stakeholders.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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