Applied Scientist

Come join a highly dynamic, startup-like team with great growth potential. We are part of the platform that is transforming businesses with AI and shaping the future of programming in the 21st century. ATL Cairo is a part of the Azure Cloud AI, that is opening opportunities to infuse AI in apps, websites and bots with intelligent algorithms to see, hear, speak, understand and interpret user needs through natural methods of communication. ATL Cairo is working in areas of AI dealing with natural text processing, understanding and all associated services. We are building transparent/compliant systems that inspire customer/partner trust and confidence around the globe.
We seek someone with a growth mindset that is willing to continually learn and improve their skills. We love self-learning/self-motivated people that take initiative and full ownership of their work. Given the distributed nature of our team, we also rely on efficient self-confident communicators to represent their work as well as partner with external stakeholders. Finally, you should be passionate about building high quality, highly scalable systems relying on your ever expanding (and already great) engineering aptitude.

**Responsibilities**:
In addition to the day-to-day function of the job that involves building innovative solutions and components in the Azure Cloud AI, you will also:

- Build ML technologies and multi-lingual NLP models.
Identify opportunities to leverage available data to resolve customer pain points.
- Prototype and rapidly evaluate creative ideas to gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses.
- Design metrics that serve as the North Stars for team efforts and A/B testing framework to support data-driven decisions.
Collaborate closely with others (good communicator, open to share ideas, can build on the work of others)
- Build highly scalable, highly available, compliant systems.
- Develop a hands-on understanding of other industry leading technologies.
- Debug/Resolve complex customer issues.
- Collaborate with worldwide distributed team.

**Qualifications**:

- B.Sc. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, Data Science, or related disciplines
- Good fundamental understanding of computer science concepts and data-structures
- Good knowledge in ML and NLP.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Data-centric & Analytical Mindset.
- Fluent and highly polished coder (C# preferred).

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.