Data & Applied Scientist

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Are you passionate about leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to solve complex, real-world challenges in the Security space? If you are an Applied Scientist with a proven track record of delivering products, eager to solve novel problems with Data and AI and are motivated by our mission, this is the role for you. Come and join us in Microsoft Security. We are looking for a passionate Applied Data Scientist/Analyst to architect, analyze, design, and build creative data derived solutions to empower teams in Microsoft Security organization. This candidate should have proven data science and analytics experience and a strong ability to translate complex problems into technical designs and solutions.

Microsoft's 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 our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Responsibilities

As an Data & Applied Scientist, you will:

• Build data pipelines using Kusto queries, Synapse, Python, and build leadership level metrics, KPIs, trends and visualizations using Power BI dashboards. Proficient in the latest Azure stack, Azure Open AI, LLM (Large Language Models), GPT models, Generative AI to apply and help automate workflows and processes.
• Partner with Architects, PMs, Engineering, and leadership teams to implement scalable data-driven frameworks for evaluating metrics and KPIs and build scalable PowerBI dashboards.
• Build tools for data manipulation, processing, and visualization to extract insights and share these tools, knowledge, and findings across partner teams in Microsoft Security and other orgs in Microsoft.
• Interpret data and communicate in a clear and lucid way to a wide variety of audiences. Influence decision-making by providing clarity through complex datasets and statistical analyses.
• Mentor early-in-career teammates and establish high standards in both data science and engineering excellence.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2 years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).

• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1 year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience in end-to-end development for building, shipping, and iterating on high-impact ML models
• Effective communication skills, maintaining customer experience and quality along with the ability to work across groups and disciplines.
• Experience in Security Domain Experience with programming languages like C# Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed computing frameworks.
  
  

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5 years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3 years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1 year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1 year(s) experience creating publications (e.g., patents, peer-reviewed academic papers).
  

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 5, 2025.

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