Are you interested in radically improving the security of Microsoft's products? Do you want to work on cutting edge malware analysis systems? Are you committed to helping Microsoft customers keep their computers safe from malware, combating advanced social engineering, and protecting complex networks? We are searching for a strong self-driven Data Scientist for Microsoft's Security Research team . As a dedicated Data Scientist on our Research team, you will apply data science and your machine learning expertise to enhance our protection systems to predict and block cybersecurity threats. You'll work with the team to identify and build features, create experiments, vet ML models, and ship successful models that provide protection for hundreds of millions of Microsoft customers. At Microsoft, you'll have access to vast amounts of threat-related data from billions of endpoints and other sources. Our data pipelines are curated and supported by engineering teams (so you won't have to do much
Develop high-performance algorithms, machine learning models, or other methodologies to address the security needs of our customers and close protection gaps. Monitor and analyze data to uncover protection gaps Identify performant features and models and make them universally accessible to our team and partners across Microsoft. Provide technical leadership to our team by reviewing problem sets, proposing prediction models, and reviewing experiments and models. Act as a resident expert for machine learning, statistics, and experiment design.
5+ years of professional experience in experiment design and applied machine learning predicting outcomes in large-scale, complex datasets. Proficiency in R, Azure ML, Python, or other statistics/ML tools. Moderate coding skills. SQL or similar required. C# or other languages strongly preferred. Outstanding communication and collaboration skills. You can learn from and teach others. Strong drive for results. You have a proven record of shepherding experiments to create successful shipping products/services. Experience with prediction in adversarial (threat) environments highly desirable. A Masters