The company has reinforced the recruitment and hiring of talent for its first R&D hub in Spain, located in Barcelona, with the opening of new vacancies for specialists in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Development and Data Science.
With these new hires, the hub will reach a highly specialized workforce of close to ninety specialists in software engineering, data science and machine learning, who will focus in the development of AI models to deliver innovative web experiences.
The work of these technicians in research and in the application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies will help develop new functionalities and improve the web user experience in widely used products such as Windows, Azure or Bing.
The Barcelona hub is one of the eight it has Microsoft’s WebXT division (Web Experiences Team) around the world. The WebXT organization works as a start-up environment, where it works assuming challenges that allow improving the consumer experience with products and services such as Microsoft Bing, Edge, and MS News. Likewise, it collaborates in research and in the development of new functionalities with the different categories of Microsoft products, including Azure, Windows and Office, among others.
Diverse talent that grows the local economy
Spain is one of the ten most attractive countries to attract and retain digital talent. It is the fourth country in Europe (after the UK, Germany and France) in number of cloud professionals and developers, which represents around 10% of all professionals certified in these advanced technologies in Europe.
“We are delighted with the high specialization of the professionals who have already joined our team at the R&D hub focused on AI in Spain and this has prompted us to increase the number of hires. We have made a great commitment to incorporate diverse talent in gender, culture and nationalities, because we are convinced that diversity favors innovation and growth“, it states Jordi Ribascorporate vice president of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and leader of the Search & AI team.
“Our goal is for this hub to consolidate itself as a pole for attracting talent, turning Catalonia and Spain in European reference in innovation in Artificial Intelligence. The very satisfactory response to the vacancies that we have offered is further proof that Microsoft’s investment and commitment in our country is correct”points Alberto Granadas, President of Microsoft Spain.2 “We will continue to actively work with universities, research centers and technology companies to promote much-needed training in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies”.
