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Come join us in the Azure Core Economics team, explore your passions, and impact the world! If you join the Azure Core Economics team, you will join a group of economists, data scientists, and software engineers within Azure Engineering that tackles a variety of data-intensive problems related to cloud economics that are of critical importance to Microsoft. Our team collaborates with many other teams in Microsoft on problems such as pricing, demand estimation and forecasting, commerce incentives, capacity management and planning, cost modeling, geo-expansion, fraud detection, yield management, virtual machine bin packing, and others.
Job Responsibility:
Acquires data necessary for successful completion of project and utilizes querying, visualization, and reporting techniques to describe acquired data
Understands existing code to write efficient and readable code for their own specific feature and collaborates with other engineering teams to integrate data models into engineering systems
Understands modeling techniques and selects the correct approach to prepare data, train and optimize the model, and evaluate the output for statistical and business significance
Assists with testing models on applications, real data, and production data, and analyzes model performance
Assists in interpreting results, developing insights, and communicating results and insights to customers and stakeholders
Engages with colleagues to understand strategy goals, explore opportunities for data science applications, and identify growth opportunities
Learns and understands tools, techniques, strategies, and processes that can be utilized to improve process efficiency and performance.
Requirements:
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) or consulting experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have:
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
OR equivalent experience.
Proficiency with relational databases and SQL, statistical packages in R, and standard libraries in Python
Experience with distributed big data analytics (using, for example, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Azure Data Lake, or Cosmos)
Solid understanding of and experience working with statistical inference techniques, machine learning models, and causal inference research designs.