# Principal Applied Scientist - Auction & Bidding

OverviewThe Ads Monetization Algo team at Microsoft Advertising focuses on optimizing ad performance for all advertisers in our ecosystem by bidding on their behalf in real-time auctions across our marketplaces. We are also responsible for designing and optimizing the auctions for the long term. All of these works are done through algorithm development, optimization, and experimental analysis of advertiser strategies and auction mechanisms. In our team, applied scientists work together and utilize all sorts of platforms, techniques, and approaches, including but not limited to mathematical modeling and optimization, machine learning, optimal control, game theory, and general economics and operations research. We build and develop both online stacks as well as offline workflows to support our algorithms. At its core, our team utilizes signals of user and advertiser intent as well as auction characteristics to determine in real-time or near-real-time which ads can enter the auctions. Our work directly impacts 10+ billion dollars in revenue annually. We are looking for a highly skilled applied scientist with development and management skills and a background in quantitative fields suc

- **Id**: 2963227
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-applied-scientist-auction-bidding>
- **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**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-25T22:39:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T15:05:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 225
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5798
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, 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**: 424
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.599
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 225

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T23:20:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-01T05:24:34Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T10:37:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.212
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 225
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

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

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