# Principal Applied Scientist-Ads Monetization

OverviewJoin Microsoft Monetization to build the future of AI-powered monetization and shape how people discover, choose, and engage with products, services, and brands across Microsoft’s most innovative experiences. Microsoft Monetization is building the next generation of AI-powered advertising and commerce experiences across Search, Shopping, Copilot, and emerging agentic surfaces. As conversational agents increasingly become the interface between users and businesses, we are reimagining how products, services, and ads are discovered, selected, personalized, and delivered. Explore opportunities across our teams and find the role where your expertise can make the greatest impact. Microsoft Search and Audience Network (MSAN)-Principal Applied Scientist In this role you will: Set the science vision and technical strategy for relevance and ranking, user data and intent understanding, personalization, recommendation, and agent-driven commerce. Lead across multiple science areas, influence architecture, research investments, model roadmaps, and execution strategy, and remain deeply hands-on in advancing machine learning innovation Relevance and Ranking-Principal Applied Scientist This

- **Id**: 2963229
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-applied-scientist-ads-monetization>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T19:17:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T19:33:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7277
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 471
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.597
- **Repost share**: 0.04
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T23:20:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-02T19:11:45Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-10T03:34:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.508
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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