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Posted date: Sep 09, 2025
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Category: Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.We are hiring an Applied Scientist for the MSRC Data Science team. The MSRC Data Science team is responsible in building data pipelines, data mining, 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 that are leading the data-driven culture within security. We hire people with a desire to build great products and make business impact using data analysis, machine learning, experiments, data mining, data visualization, and more. We welcome applications from diverse multi-disciplinary backgrounds, with analytical skills, engineering abilities, communication skills, business interests, relentless curiosity, and a desire to improve the experiences of more than one billion customers.
For this specific role, we are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist deeply experienced using data to measure and improve Microsoft's security posture. This role will be accountable for designing, helping implement, extending, adapting, and evaluating results of methodologies that are core to our system we’re building to measure and improve product security risks.
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.
Working with the business to understand a real-world scenario and translate it into a machine learning problem and think of optimal ways of solving it. Outline alternative approaches and identify pros, cons, risks and provide recommended approach.Performs documentation of work in progress, experimentation results, plans, etc. Documents scientific work to ensure process is captured. Participates in the creation of informal documentation and may share findings to promote innovation within group.Data wrangling, data analysis and transforming large data sets to build scalable pipelines.
Use Machine Leaning and Deep Learning techniques to build prediction models on structured and unstructured data.Improve the performance and run-time of ML modelsCollaborate with PMs to plan and prioritize ML deliverables as part of broader business initiatives, ensure delivery according to the planned schedule.Keep up to speed with the current academic and industry advances in machine learning techniques, experiment with their application to improve our ML models.Work in collaboration with teammates to ensure reliable and trust-worthy data for critical business decisions to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.Build data processing tools, libraries, frameworks and performing and getting insights from data analysis
Learning and using tools like Azure ML, Azure Data Factory, Python and more public and Microsoft internal toolsEnsure the solutions are stable, supportable, extensible, and trusted by our business partners.Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Requiered/Minimum QualificationsBachelor'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.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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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).2+ years’ experience in building data pipelines using cloud computing like, Kusto (Azure Data Explorer), Azure ML, Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage or similar.1+ years of experience using GenAI and LLM.
3+ years of expertise with Python and experience with other scripting languages
Experience with libraries such as Pandas, Keras, Pytorch, Scikit-learn etc. to build ML models.Experience in solving data science problems in Cybersecurity.Experience using technologies such as Big Data platformsExperience in DevOps and building end to end pipelines using CI/CD.Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 September 17,2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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