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Principal Applied Scientist

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-25

Core

Technical lead for AI-powered relevance, shopping, recommendation, and agentic commerce initiatives across Copilot, Shopping, and Ads experiences.

Role type

Principal Applied Scientist (AI/ML)

Builds

Scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AI systems for user intent understanding, product understanding, content relevance, and advertiser matching.

Domain

E-commerce, Advertising, Search, Recommendation Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLMs, SLMs, multimodal AI, retrieval systems, recommendation systems, foundation models, deep learning, transformers, distributed training optimization, technical leadership, cross-organizational initiative management, research-to-production translation, mentoring

Preferred skills

Experience with agentic systems, conversational AI, AI-powered assistants, marketplace ecosystems, GPU cluster inference optimization

Technologies

LLMs, SLMs, transformers, GPU clusters

Responsibilities

Define and execute the science roadmap for user intent and product understanding; Lead end-to-end ML development including model architecture, training data strategy, evaluation, and production deployment; Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable AI systems; Shape the technical vision for future agent experiences and conversational shopping; Mentor scientists and engineers while raising the technical bar.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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