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Senior Economist

Microsoft· Applied Sciences
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Hybrid (United States, Multiple Locations), New York, NY, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Microsoft Security's Economics and Analytics team uses econometric analysis, experimentation, machine learning, and economic theory to inform decisions on business strategy, product performance, and industry dynamics. The Senior Economist focuses on the division’s operational efficiency, helping optimize resources, tooling, and processes to drive cost-effective outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Discover the division's biggest opportunities to improve efficiency and help formalize them as scientific questions that can be answered with data and theory
  • Estimate the causal effects of product, operational, and resource-allocation decisions on cost, utilization, customer outcomes, and revenue
  • Formulate resource allocation decisions as optimization problems
  • Define measures that connect resource usage, including tokens, compute, and capacity, to productive utilization and business outcomes
  • Determine the appropriate micro-level unit of analysis, such as a feature, workflow, agent, or service, so that efficiency signals support actionable product and resource-allocation decisions
  • Work with product and engineering to instrument and collect the right data
  • Translate analytical findings into decision rules, forecasting tools, and optimization systems; partner with business, product, and engineering teams to implement them and measure their realized impact
  • Write clear, accessible reports to communicate your analysis for executive consumption

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field - AND 4+ years related experience OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements including Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Skills

Required:Economics, statistics, causal inference, or optimization
Nice to have:Scientific computing with R or Python (Statsmodels, EconML, DoubleML)

Benefits

  • There is a different base pay range for San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area (see compensation section)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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