What if your job description were simply "Accelerating Innovation through Trustworthy Experimentation."? That is the essence of roles within our team. Are you a Data Scientist (DS) who has an appreciation for experimentation, trustworthiness of results, insatiable curiosity, and ability to challenge yourself and drive a cultural change towards data driven decision-making in multi-billion-dollar businesses? We are looking for experienced data scientists who know how to solve complex big data problems, work with statistics and algorithms, analyze big data and can help drive large products within Microsoft run trustworthy experiments. You can be involved in building the Microsoft experimentation platform used in a wide range of heavily used products including Bing, Office, Skype, Teams, Photos, MSN, Xbox, Windows, and more. 

  

The Microsoft Experimentation Platform (ExP) is a team within Cloud & AI (C&AI). We have been researching, developing, and operating ExP for over 14 years.  

  

We are building a platform in Azure that accelerates innovations for key partners in Microsoft by testing innovative ideas quickly and reliably. Such as: What factors affect the quality of the Azure user experience? What causes users to make a first payment with XBox? What features in Office drive users to love the product and want to use them more? The list of needs grows every day.  We are now at the next phase of our mission: building the ExP platform in Azure. Come and join us in the revolution!   

  

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/experimentation-platform-exp/ 

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&AI, and Microsoft. 
• Develop novel statistical methods to help teams better measure user engagement with Microsoft products 
• Handle large amounts of data using various tools, including your own. We prefer knowledge of Python, Java, C++ or C# as well as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark but are open to all languages. 
• 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 and help drive long term experimentation growth across all Microsoft products. 
• Mentor others in the team.  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years‘ experience in applied statistics & mathematics skills: p-values, confidence intervals, regression. 
• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical IT work experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD degree preferred 

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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 after.

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