Senior Data Scientist- Experimentation

Are you ready to revolutionize software innovation? Join the Experimentation Team at Microsoft, leading the charge under the Azure AI Platform. We're driving the future with ExP, one of the planet’s largest experimentation platforms, trusted by Microsoft's premier teams like Azure, Teams, Bing, and Office. With ExP, we're transforming decision-making through A/B testing, and enabling customers answer questions like: What factors affect the quality of the Bing user experience? What causes users to make a first payment with XBox? How does a new Outlook feature impact Office’s business metrics?  

We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist-Experimintation who will get the opportunity to push the envelope for how data is leveraged and change the way software is built.  You will also got the opportunity to work in an agile and diverse engineering team, closely partnering with world-class data scientists with leadership that will help you grow your career.  In additon, help evolve the ExP platform into an Azure offering.  
 

Visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/experimentation-platform-exp/ for more information about the ExP Platform including videos, articles and publications.  

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.

Responsibilities

• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop experiments and provide algorithmic problem-solving solutions. 

• Build data manipulation, processing, and data visualization tools and share these tools and your knowledge across the team, C&I, and Microsoft. 

• Handle large amounts of data using various tools, including your own.  

• Ensure high-quality data and understand how that data which is generated out experimental design can produce actionable, trustworthy conclusions. 

• Partner with internal clients such as Xbox, Windows, Skype for Business, Teams, Microsoft Office 365  

• Drive end-to-end projects by utilizing, applying and analyzing data associated business problems. 

• Engage with senior management in making key business decisions. 

• Mentor others in the team.  

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required 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 techn
  • 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 tec
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
• Scripting knowledge in Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, SQL or similar languages.
• Programming skills as we are programming-language agnostic so welcome all languages.

 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withworking with  programming languages like Java, C++, C# with tools such as Hadoop, Spark, Pig or Hive.

Data Science IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 9, 2024.

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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