Applied Scientist

Overview

A unique opportunity to join Bing Search, a global search engine powering billions of searches daily, both from humans and from Large-Language Models.

The Bing Metrics team is looking for passionate applied scientists to work on the new generation of metrics and quality control for the Bing Grounding API. The team ensures that Bing returns high-quality, error-free, and authoritative results using a variety of different approaches. Our team builds complex pipeline including crowd judging and machine learning steps to verify our suspicions. Now, we actively use LLMs like ChatGPT as a judge to evaluate the quality of search results at multiple levels: query, answer, whole page and generate insights for the teams who are responsible this experience.

As a part of an international and distributed team you will be responsible for RAG quality metrics within Bing Search. The job provides you with the opportunity to work with multiple teams across entire Bing (>80 different teams) and greatly influence the search engine relevance and search result quality of the entire platform. We are an established core team in Bing with very high visibility and impact.

We are looking for a talented engineer/applied scientist with a passion to work with LLM and specifically RAG, design, implement and test complex data pipelines built on top of LLM models, create new tools for running multi-step prompts to evaluate search engine quality and generate actionable insights for the teams.

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Responsibilities

Design and implement metrics for RAG with Bing Web Search and other APIs.
Build pipelines and dashboards for Bing Grounding quality.
Use LLM models in LLM-as-a-judge settings for data evaluation.
Engineer prompts for textual and multi-model LLMs for data processing and generation of insights.
Design and implement E2E pipelines (from sampling anomalies from the logs through prompt engineering to ultimately automatically updatable dashboards).
Apply classical ML (feature engineering + model training, text and image embeddings) along with LLM to augment data analysis and processing pipelines.
Help teams to build new innovative search experience with Bing.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND hands on experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR equivalent experience.
Proficient in working with relational and/or non-relational databases, including experience in writing queries and performing data manipulation using SQL or equivalents.

Experience developing and applying Large Language Models (LLMs) within AI solutions, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques for integrating external knowledge sources.

Ability to work independently, solid collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND hands on experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND hands on experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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