Web Data Platform team at Microsoft is looking for a highly skilled and motivated **Senior Data Scientist** to join our team focused on improving web data quality by identifying and mitigating junk URLs at scale. In this role, you will work on some of the largest and most complex datasets in the world, leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and cutting-edge technologies to enhance the quality of data ingested for search and other web-based services. Your work will directly impact millions of users by improving search relevance, content quality, and user experience.
Ideal candidates should be able to take a business or engineering problem from a PM or Engineering leader and translate it to a data science problem. This includes all the steps to identify and deeply understand potential data sources, conduct the appropriate analysis or modeling to reveal actionable insights, and then work with data or AI engineers to operationalize the metrics or solutions.

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