Data Scientist - Cloud and Enterprise Security

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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, as a leader in the cyber security domain, has a rich portfolio of security products. To protect our customers, we must keep finding creative, scalable and high-end methods to detect malicious activities and to provide our customers with out-of-the-box personalized protection. This is where our team comes into the picture! Our responsibility is to protect Microsoft Security customers, focusing on Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Security Exposure Management customers. To accomplish this, we are looking for a problem solver passionate about data, data science, and AI to join us on our journey.

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

As a data scientist on our team, you will work closely with security experts, software developers, and product managers to tackle many different types of problems. You will utilize generative AI tools, supervised and unsupervised learning methods, statistical methods, anomaly detection techniques, graph algorithms and more, to help customers protect their environment and to identify malicious activities. You will be independent but surrounded by a large team of strong and experienced data scientists and security researchers, who will help you to develop your skills and advance your career. We believe in ownership. As part of our team, you will be responsible for the entire project life cycle. Starting from coming up with an idea, to business and data understanding, performing the research work, collaborating with software developers, product managers and other researchers, and up to developing the production code of your components. We also love to share ideas and inspire one another.

Qualifications

M.Sc./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 3-7 years of applied data science and machine learning experience from the industry or academic research.
• Demonstrated experience in solving difficult problems connecting theory with real world impact.
• Passion for data, data-science and productization efforts.
  
  

Qualifications - Other Requirements

Experience in language models, cyber security, and cloud platforms.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Experience in language models, cyber security, and cloud platforms.

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