Senior Data & Applied Scientist Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Our team, part of the Customer Success Engineering org, is fanatically focused on customer love: quantifying it, deeply understanding it, democratizing it, and improving it. We turn customer satisfaction into a signal as clear and indispensable as usage or perf, develop deep insights on what drives it, and proactively engage customers to increase it. Our team puts some science behind customer love, enabling engineering teams to better understand their issues.

We are a combined engineering & Data Science team architecting the system that underpins these efforts, including a survey system, the backend storage where we blend in telemetry and other sources to augment the signal, ML models to pinpoint drivers and find correlations, and our proactive outreach platform that interfaces with support and enables us easily orchestrate campaigns to connect directly with customers in a personal way.

5 years of experience with machine learning, natural language processing and experiment design

Experience applying statistical methods such as hypothesis testing, p-values, confidence intervals, regression, classification, and optimization

Development experience in C#/C++/Java/R/Python or similar programming language

Strong communications skills, in particular written research results and effective presentations

Familiarity with distributed data processing/analysis and modeling paradigms, such as Map-Reduce, is a plus

Expertise in survey methodology is a plus

BS/BA in computer science, Engineering, machine learning, statistics or equivalent related field (PhD preferred).

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.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Being one of the stewards for a key business metric

Working as part of a results-oriented, data-driven team that embraces experimentation

Collaborating with engineers, program managers and partner teams to develop insights from our signals

Building lasting models for analyzing and understanding satisfaction data.