Senior Data Scientist

We are seeking a passionate and technically skilled  Senior Data Scientist to join the Commerce – Platforms, Data, and Experiences (PDX) team. This team plays a pivotal role in shaping Microsoft’s commerce data strategy, building scalable data platforms, and delivering actionable ML driven insights that drive business transformation across the ecosystem. 

As a Senior Data Scientist in PDX, you will be responsible for conducting applied research and development in the areas of anomaly detection, forecasting, recommendation systems and privacy preserving AI and build prototypes as well as take the algorithms all the way to production – this covers all the ML engineering aspects end-to-end including algorithm development, coding and building prototypes as well as the production-grade ML sub-systems. 

• Conduct original research into the areas of forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation systems as well as privacy preserving ML/AI and agentic AI. Disseminate the research findings by publishing in top conferences such as NeurIPS, AAAI, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, etc. 

• Build scalable machine learning models as part of the Commerce Platform that would act as the foundation for insights across the Commerce Platform.  

• Define the scientific vision for ML/AI in the commerce platform. 

• Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver business impact powered by ML Models, ensuring the models built are operable, scalable, extensible and performant. 

• Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluation using structured and unstructured datasets. 

• Lead experimentation efforts to evaluate new features, forecasting, data quality, and anomaly detection systems. 

• Be a champion of responsible AI development and ensure the necessary guardrails are put in place to ensure fairness, accountability and transparency of AI/ML models 

• Build extensible solutions on LLM models to improve productivity of engineers across the commerce organization.