Senior Applied Scientist

The IDEAS team (Insights, Data, Employee Experience, Agents, and Science) is one of the largest data science organizations at Microsoft. We play a critical role in providing data and analytics for M365 and own the end‑to‑end machine learning and decision sciences charter. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the IDEAS team, you will work at the intersection of data, insights, machine learning, and AI—turning complex data into actionable insights that drive key business decisions across the M365 organization. In this role, you will bring together data from multiple sources to create a single version of truth and perform opportunity analysis and hypothesis generation across the end‑to‑end customer lifecycle. You will design, prototype, implement, and test descriptive and predictive analytics, forecasting, and causal inference models while collaborating closely with cross‑functional partners.