Senior Data Scientist- Microsoft Threat Protection

One Security Operations Center (SOC) is a new team under Modern Protection & Security Operation Center, our vision is to empower every SOC team to protect their entire digital estate, optimize for their unique environment and needs. We build the ultimate unified one-stop-shop solution, making SOC teams most effective and efficient and deliver optimized protection that meets customers where they are, leading Extended Detection and Response (XDR)+ Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market.
We are looking for an innovative data scientist with NLP expertise, strong technical skills and desire to make significant impact through data and research. A successful candidate will be an excellent hands-on applied data scientist who is enthusiastic about NLP, LLMs, data, security, and real-world problem solving

- M.Sc./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of hands-on data science and machine learning experience
- Strong expertise and hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Demonstrated experience in solving difficult problems connecting theory to real world impact
- Passionate about using data science for building products
- Excellent teamwork, collaboration and communication skills

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. 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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

As a senior data scientist on our team, you will work closely with other data scientists, security experts, software engineers, and product managers to tackle many different types of problems. You will utilize generative AI tools, anomaly detection algorithms, supervised and unsupervised learning methods, statistical methods, time series analysis, and more, to help customers investigate security incidents and protect their environments. You will be up to date with our customers’ needs and the competitive landscape and work with internal and external teams to build advanced solutions for SIEM and XDR. You will process hundreds of PBs and code mainly in Python and PySpark. You will be independent but surrounded by a large team of strong and experienced multi-disciplinary researchers