Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will collaborate with experts in deep learning, machine learning, and distributed systems. You will partner with program management and Azure engineering teams to help drive the successful adoption of Azure in some of our largest accounts and will drive product changes and gap closure with the various product teams across the organization.

You will work on all aspects of the design, development and delivery of machine learning and deep learning solutions, including problem definition, data acquisition, exploration, training, testing and evaluating deep learning models, and creating end-to-end pipelines and solutions in production.  

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD/MS in CS/EE/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/DS/ML or related fields with knowledge in information retrieval, NLP, Machine Learning and Data Mining.
• 3+ years of experience in software development
• 1+ years of experience working with machine learning libraries to and real word data science problems.
• Proficiency in one statically typed language (C#, Java, C, C++)
• Proficiency in one scripting language (Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Perl)
• Familiarity with a version control system.
• Excited to work on a diverse team
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
• Very strong research, theory and algorithm background with the ability to apply advanced knowledge on real challenges.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstratable experience with software engineering principles, parallel and distributed computing, statistics, machine learning, cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Experience working with deploying of machine learning models
• Experience with deep learning libraries
• Experience working with real-world noisy data
• Experience working with customers and interacting with C-Level stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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