The PowerAI team in the Business Applications Group (within Cloud + AI division) is looking for a passionate data scientist to help build AI platform. Our goal is leveraging AI to provide a single, integrated story for customers to rapidly Analyze, Act and Automate in their business. This is a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft, and an opportunity to directly impact high profile enterprise customers.
Have an ability to mine data sets with Cosmos, Hadoop or Spark like technologies Transform data into innovative features/signals that can improve a machine-learning task Build machine learning models and evaluating their quality on real life scenarios Prototype new approaches and develop new algorithms using ML techniques Work with other data scientists, engineers, UX experts to deliver a robust solution to the customer Have an ability to self-learn new techniques from textbooks and research papers Never compromise on engineering excellence and delivering quality at scale
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related fields At least 2 years of coding experience (or research projects in lieu of industry experience) and 3 years of modeling training in the areas of data science, machine learning, information retrieval or natural language processing Proficiency and demonstrable skills using statistical or machine learning programming languages and packages (Python/R etc.) Demonstrable skills and experience using SQL or NoSQL data stores Excellent verbal and written communication skills