Senior Data Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Feb 15, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) Research Team is dedicated to safeguarding over 1 billion endpoint devices globally from cybersecurity threats using cutting-edge technology and innovation. As cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, MDE assists consumers and enterprises in detecting, investigating, and automatically disrupting advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks. We are looking for a new team member who is passionate about data science and data engineering to help us leverage the latest research and innovation to protect Defender customers. Our team operates as an agile unit, experimenting with the latest tools and technologies to design and implement solutions for critical business challenges, such as measuring protection effectiveness and applying generative AI to enhance Defender protection. As business needs evolve and technology advances, our projects remain dynamic, and therefore we are seeking a new team member with the mentality for critical problem solving, adaptability, and a strong desire to learn. 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.
ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Data Scientist, you will: Use data science and statistical processes and methodologies to design, implement and visualize measurements relevant to Microsoft Defender business priorities leveraging both structured and unstructured data.Explore and analyze implications of data to determine the most significant elements, identify common elements and themes, generate alternatives and understand consequences of each alternative and derive relevant insights and conclusions to influence investment strategy.Contribute to creation and orchestration of data pipelines and data quality validation over large, complex data sources and schemas, Facilitate the quality of applied science experiments through exploration and development of usable data sets, data visualization, monitoring, and alerting pipelines.Influence leaders across Microsoft Security to ensure cutting-edge technology is being matured in a practical way that meets key business opportunities of significant scope and impact.Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders including other defenders including researchers, engineers, threat hunters, and product managers on business objectives, dependencies/requirements, and results.Produce reliable and performant code, conduct design and code reviews to ensure alignment with standards and best practices, and follows release management policies to ensure data integrity, compliance, system stability and responsible AI standards. | |