Overview

About the Role

Microsoft Advertising serves ads across search, native, display, video, commerce, and emerging AI-powered experiences. Protecting these ecosystems requires decision systems that can understand advertisers, content, behavior, intent, landing pages, identities, and marketplace activity across every modality.

We are seeking a Principal Applied Science Manager to lead the science organization responsible for risk, editorial quality, moderation, policy enforcement, and Responsible AI across Microsoft Advertising.

The team will build the next generation of intelligent decision systems, including:

Foundation models for advertiser behavior and risk.
Foundation moderation models spanning text, image, video and multimodal experiences.
Deep-research agents that investigate complex cases, gather evidence, reason across signals, and assist automated and human decision-making.
Tiered enforcement systems that select the right model, workflow, and level of review based on risk, severity, confidence, latency, and cost.




Human-in-the-loop that combine advanced AI capabilities with expert judgment and accountability.
Continuous evaluation and audit systems that measure quality, fairness, safety, robustness, and business impact.

This role owns both scientific direction and production impact of the science. The successful candidate will define the long-term strategy, build and lead a robust science team, and work closely with engineering, product, platform, policy, review operations, and partner organizations to ship these capabilities across all Microsoft Ads products.

The role is ideal for a leader who can operate across multiple horizons: delivering measurable improvements today while shaping the future of Responsible AI, trust and safety, and intelligent enforcement systems.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Define and drive the multi-year science strategy for risk, editorial quality, moderation, policy enforcement, and Responsible AI across Microsof

📌 Principal Applied Science Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Microsoft AI
📍 Bengaluru