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Job number 1040335 Date posted May 19, 2021 Travel0-25 % Profession Engineering Role type Individual Contributor Employment type Full-Time
Do you want to be on the leading edge of using big data and help drive development decisions for the biggest productivity software on the planet? Office Experience Organization (OXO) has embarked on a mission to delight our customers by using data informed engineering to develop compelling products and services. OXO is looking for an experienced Data Scientist with a passion for maximizing the return on investment from collecting petabytes of telemetry data to infer deep user and product insights. The Data Scientist would leverage statistical modeling, experimentation, forecasting and data visualization techniques to identify core drivers of user engagement in productivity applications. The role involves working with application teams (like Word, Excel, and Power Point), other data scientists, data engineers and program managers to continuously improve understanding usage, retention and user satisfaction.
We are looking for a strong Data Scientist with a proven track record of solving large, complex data analysis and machine learning problems in a real-world product development setting. Ideal candidates should be able to identify a business or engineering problem and translate it to a data science problem, dig out sources of data, conduct the analysis that would reveal useful nuggets and help engineering teams to operationalize the solution.
Responsibilities Core Skills:
Identifies data sources, integrates multiple sources, or types of data, and applies expertise within a data source to develop methods to compensate for limitations and extend the applicability of the data. Applies (or develops if necessary) tools and pipelines to efficiently collect, clean, and prepare massive volumes of data for analysis. Transforms formulated problems into implementation plans for experiments by applying (and creating when necessary) the appropriate methods, algorithms, and tools, and statistically validating the results against biases and errors. Interprets results and develops insights into formulated problems within the business/customer context and provides guidance on risks and limitations. Acquires and uses broad knowledge of innovative methods, algorithms, and tools from within Microsoft and from the scientific literature and applies his or her own analysis of scalability and applicability to the formulated problem. Validates, monitors, and drives continuous improvement to methods, and proposes enhancements to data sources that improve usability and results.
Qualifications Requirements:
Expert in one or more statistical software like R, SAS, etc. Expert in one or more scripting languages like Perl, Python, Scala, or SQL Solid foundation of statistical modeling and machine learning algorithms and experimental design Deep understanding of big data systems including map reduce technologies like Hadoop and Spark. B.S. and/or M.S. (Ph.D. Preferred) in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or similar quantitative field. 5 years plus of applying statistical modeling, ML, and data mining algorithms to real world problems.
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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Benefits and Perks Industry leading healthcareSavings and investmentsGiving programsEducational resourcesMaternity and paternity leaveOpportunities to network and connectDiscounts on products and servicesGenerous time away