Principal Applied Scientist

Job Description

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. Our team accelerates threat prevention efforts by automating detection, analysis, and response at scale and as close to discovery as possible. 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. Responsibilities Design solutions for optimizing analyses of entities, telemetry and behavioral data and advance state-of-the-art of threat detection and protection. Create actionable insights from analysis to drive develop durable detection & prevention strategies across the entire kill-chain, highlight protection gaps and drive product improvements. Independently works to create product impact. Identifies approach and applies, improves, or creates new data science models to positively impact a Microsoft product or service. Work with internal and external teams to forge new and improve existing partnerships that help mature the product and derive better insights Condense findings and communicate these verbally and in writing to researchers, developers and engineers through Data Visualizations and Infographics conveying clear, concise and powerful messages. Qualifications Qualifications - Required: 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. Bachelor's Degree or higher in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience Experience with data analysis involving statistical software tools, Big Data systems, Data Pipelines and Reporting (8+ years) Python / C# experience (8+ years) Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP (3+ years) Good to have: Industry experience in the cybersecurity area (5+ years) Experience with Generative AI / LLMs / NLP (1+ years) Prompt Engineering (1+ year) #MSFTSecurity #MSFTSecurity #CyberSecurity #MTP #Defender #AutoProtect Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.