About the Role
The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive high-impact engineering projects with customers, transforming their missions using AI and cloud-based solutions. You will work in multidisciplinary teams, embedding with customers to co-engineer solutions to their toughest business challenges using AI-powered, cloud-based technologies and Microsoft's Hypervelocity Engineering methodology.
Responsibilities
- Acquire necessary data and develop usable datasets for modeling.
- Update internal best practices for data collection and preparation.
- Contribute to data integrity conversations with customers.
- Evaluate team models and recommend improvements.
- Drive best practices for models and develop operational models that run at scale.
- Conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques.
- Identify and invent new evaluation methods.
- Research and maintain deep knowledge of industry trends and technologies.
- Identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices.
- Write extensible code that spans multiple features.
- Develop expertise in proper debugging techniques.
- Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals.
- Partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities.
- Apply a customer-oriented focus to understand their needs.
- Help drive realistic customer expectations.
- Embody team culture and values.
Requirements
- Doctorate OR Master's Degree OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
- Comfortable with travel up to 25%.
Skills
- Data management
- Developing statistical techniques
- Analyzing data
- Finding patterns
- AI
- Cloud-based solutions
- Hypervelocity Engineering methodology
- Software engineering
- Technical program management
- Design
- Debugging techniques
- Extensible code development
Location
- Remote
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Doctorate
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
Benefits
- Competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around personal needs.
About the Company
- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
- Culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond, built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability.
- The ISE team operates Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineering function, working directly with customers to co-engineer solutions.
- Work is powered by Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE), a methodology of applying AI across the full lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities.
- Informal and flexible work environment.
- Wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences are vital to success.
Equal Opportunity
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- Assistance with religious accommodations and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process is available.
