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About the Role
Microsoft Security's Economics and Analytics team seeks a Senior Economist to focus on the division’s operational efficiency. This role involves optimizing GPU capacity, evaluating AI model costs, and improving organizational efficiency through rigorous scientific analysis, economic intuition, and technical skills.
Responsibilities
- Discover opportunities to improve division efficiency and formalize them as scientific questions.
- Estimate causal effects of decisions on cost, utilization, customer outcomes, and revenue.
- Formulate resource allocation decisions as optimization problems.
- Define measures connecting resource usage to productive utilization and business outcomes.
- Determine the appropriate micro-level unit of analysis for efficiency signals.
- Work with product and engineering to instrument and collect data.
- Translate analytical findings into decision rules, forecasting tools, and optimization systems.
- Write clear, accessible reports for executive consumption.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- Applying economics, statistics, causal inference, or optimization to complex business, policy, or product decisions.
- Scientific computing using R or Python, including frameworks such as Statsmodels, EconML, or DoubleML.
- Working with large-scale datasets and data processing tools.
- Conducting applied research in academic or industry settings.
- Demonstrated research impact through publications, patents, open-source libraries, or peer-reviewed academic work.
- Developing and deploying production systems or products.
- Knowledge of security-related domains.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Strong collaboration and partnership skills.
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- Doctorate
Salary/Compensations
- USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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.
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.