# Principal Applied Scientist (Shopping)

Overview Microsoft Shopping is building the next generation of intelligent web analytics and user understanding experiences. Our team leverages large-scale behavioral data machine learning deep learning and large language models to help users find the product they are looking for at the best deal. As a Principal Applied Scientist you will work on some of the most challenging and impactful problems in the web intelligence space including conversion understanding user profiling shopping and commerce intelligence and AI-powered customer journey insights. You will partner closely with engineers product managers and data scientists to transform massive datasets into intelligent products that serve millions of users and businesses worldwide. This role is ideal for candidates who enjoy solving ambiguous problems working with petabyte-scale data applying modern AI techniques and driving innovations from research concepts to production deployment. Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on ou

- **Id**: 3939930
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-applied-scientist-shopping-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cairo, Egypt
- **Countries**: EG
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:11:40Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T07:11:40Z
- **Days open**: 30
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- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

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- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
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- **Employer type**: direct
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

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- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Keras** — Optional: yes
- **Power BI** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes

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- **Days open**: 30

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- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T13:04:05Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T07:11:40Z

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