Role Overview
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will help transform how organizations use data, developing models, running experiments, and driving evidence-based decisions that have measurable business impact. You’ll work in small, multidisciplinary crews alongside engineers, product managers, and domain experts, owning the full lifecycle from data discovery through to deployed solutions, for the Government, Defense and Intelligence industry.
What You Will Do
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.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role offers the opportunity to work with messy, real-world datasets and turn them into scalable, production-ready solutions, run experiments that directly influence business strategy and customer outcomes, collaborate with leading global organizations across industries, and apply the latest advancements in AI and data science to solve problems at scale.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
- OR Master’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data science experience
- OR equivalent experience
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end
- Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs): Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years data-science experience
- OR Master’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data-science experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years data-science experience
- OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience
- Comfortable with travel up to 25%
To apply for this job please visit apply.careers.microsoft.com.

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