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Senior Data Scientist - FDE

Microsoft· Data Science
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Hybrid (Multiple Locations), Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, Houston, TX, Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Scientist in Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering (FDE) team focused on delivering production-ready AI/ML solutions within customer environments, owning full lifecycle from data discovery to deployment and driving measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

  • You will oversee acquisition of the data sets necessary for your project delivery and ensure data is properly formatted and described. You will address any gaps in current data sets, and drive ethics and privacy discussions around data collection and preparation.
  • You will evaluate your team’s models using metrics tied to genuine business outcomes and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. You’ll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques and identify and invent new evaluation methods.
  • You will research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership in best practices. You’ll also write extensible code that spans multiple features and develops expertise in proper debugging techniques.
  • You will define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. You’ll also commit to a customer-oriented focus by acknowledging their needs and offering customer pragmatic solutions that align with their data capabilities.
  • As a senior data scientist, you will also coach engineers and cross-disciplinary partners in data science best practices and scale knowledge within the cross discipline team.

Qualifications

  • 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 the same fields AND 3+ years data-science experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in the same fields AND 5+ years data-science experience OR equivalent experience
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.

Skills

Required:Data discovery and acquisitionModel evaluation and deploymentStrategy and partnershipsLeadership and coaching
Nice to have:Industry research and thought leadership
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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