Data and Applied Scientist
Microsoft
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USD 98,300-193,200 / year
Posted on May 14, 2025
Data and Applied Scientist
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Date posted
May 14, 2025
Job number
1823634
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
None
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Discipline
Data Science
Employment type
Full-Time
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 the idea of protecting over a billion people and making the world a durably safer place? The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is on the forefront of protecting the breadth of Microsoft’s customers from emerging threats to security and privacy.
The MSRC Data Science team is responsible in building data pipelines, reporting dashboards, data engineering, data pipelines, Machine Learning (ML) models and insights on security related data. We combine our data science work with business and engineering knowledge to provide unique insights into customer scenarios within Security.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results.
- OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience in Azure Synapse, Kusto, building CI/CD pipelines, PowerBI.
- 1+ years of experience in Python, Azure SQL database, Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), Azure ML, Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage or similar.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results.
- OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results).
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience in AI/ML, LLM, GPT models
- 1+ years of experience with Azure Machine Learning, Azure Fabric, Azure Synapse, or similar platforms.
- 1+ years of experience understanding of data versioning, governance, and reproducibility in ML workflows.
- 1+ years of experience of knowledge of responsible AI practices, including fairness, transparency, and bias mitigation.
- Communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Data Science 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 May 20, 2025.
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Responsibilities
As a Data and Applied Scientist, you will:
• Write clean code with a strong emphasis on well-thought-out design, focusing on quality, security, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Prioritizes the customer's perspective and experience when designing systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions from the initial envisioning phase to deployment and live site reliability, with a particular emphasis on automation and DevOps practices.
• Drive improvements through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews, integrating DevOps principles.
• Adapt to new technologies, tools, methods, and processes from Microsoft and the industry, while applying DevOps best practices.
• Contribute to driving future state architecture changes within the group, considering scalability, reliability, security, and automation.
• Enhances service fundamentals, including capacity planning, performance, reliability, and monitoring, with a focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Serves as a role model for Microsoft Values and DevOps principles through your behaviors and actions.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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