Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

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.
We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to join our team. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact on protecting people and businesses, this is the team for you. Security is a top priority for our customers in a world filled with digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity.
The Microsoft Security Social Engineering Research Team is dedicated to defending Microsoft's customers against threats across all messaging and web platforms through applied AI innovation. Our culture fosters a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best every day. As attackers' methods evolve, our solutions adapt and anticipate. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate and detect threats in real-time across different platforms, technologies, and AI capabilities. Working with data at scale, utilizing emergent technologies, and being empowered by Microsoft's unique set of threat intelligence is the perfect challenge for any Principal Applied Scientist.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR equivalent experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
• 3+ years experience with processing large volumes of data in distributed environment (MapReduce, Spark, MPI, CUDA, etc)
• 1+ years experience with at least 1 statically typed object-oriented language (C#, Java, C++, Fortran etc.)
• Familiarity with software development tools such as GIT, automated build systems, and project tracking systems.
• Proficiency in measuring the health and effectiveness of systems.
• Demonstrated ability and motivation to self-teach and navigate through ambiguity.
• Passion for cybersecurity is a plus, although previous experience or knowledge is not required.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders across our team and beyond to identify the most critical challenges worth solving
• Developing and supporting production AI models and heuristics to detect social engineering attacks
• Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation or engage in incident response as needed
• Embody our culture and values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees