2. Data & Applied Scientist

Are you passionate about applying machine learning to real-world problems? Would you like to define and deliver features that leverage data science and machine learning to empower hundreds of millions of users on the planet to achieve more? If you want to change the world with data and large-scale distributed systems, we’ve got an incredible opportunity for you.

Who we are
Microsoft Developer Center Norway (MDCN), with offices in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø, is part of the Experiences & Devices group within Microsoft. We work on integrating and building intelligent experiences across Microsoft 365, with ownership of how users experience people, building a semantic information graph across content like files, and providing organization wide searches. We are transforming Microsoft 365 to an intelligent fabric to empower people and organizations to achieve more.

Microsoft 365 is the locomotive that is driving Microsoft forward, and consists of cloud services like Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Skype and Microsoft Teams. This isn’t just any large web service; the implementation ranks among the world’s largest and most cutting-edge distributed systems spanning 100s of data centers around the world, 100,000’s of servers and exabytes of data. The products are used by most of the Fortune 500 enterprises, key government organizations, thousands of non-profits and 100s of millions of consumers across the world.

Microsoft Development Center Norway offers an enthusiastic, high paced work environment where you can impact millions of users around the world. We are open minded, diverse and work flexible hours. You can look forward to attractive pension plans, personal-, travel- and health insurances, 6 weeks of annual vacation as well as state of the art hardware and software in daily use. We subsidize food and beverages, public transport, gym, phone, broadband. Sports and gaming groups focus on your wellbeing. We are also focusing on your personal and professional development within MDCN and beyond. Check out our SWAY!

Our team works together with backed services teams and front end experiences teams to deliver features powered by a semantic understanding of people and relationships between people.

Responsibilities:

You will work in a team of developers, data scientists and architects responsible for every stage of the software development lifecycle – from early design to implementation, roll-out, monitoring and scaling. Microsoft services run with low latency and industry leading availability and reliability. You own this, together with the rest of the team – ensuring that our services meet high customer expectations. Your code will be used in components that power experiences for hundreds of millions of daily users and you’ll get ample opportunity to be challenged across many dimensions of software engineering and machine learning.

We expect you to participate in and contribute to the larger machine learning community inside of MDCN and Microsoft. The team will look to you for help in understanding what is going on in the machine learning area and you will be expected to have a point of view on which direction to take our products. Our services have a large set of implicit and explicit signals from real users that can be leveraged in both offline and online experimentation, while respecting user privacy and compliance, for learning and iterating to improve our products, and you will play an important role creating ML models from this data.

Must-have qualifications:
Master's or bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, mathematics or related technical disciplines.
Proven track record of defining, delivering, and optimizing explorative data science and machine learning projects that address real-world problems.
Experience with ML tools to build models and analyze data (e.g. Python, R, scikit-learn, TF, PyTorch, ML.NET).
Knowledge of distributed big-data computing systems (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Azure ML).
Software engineering experience covering software engineering best practices (code quality, repo hygiene, code reviews, unit testing, design documentation, continuous integration, deployment).
Strong verbal skills as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Fluency in English.


Preferable qualifications:
Software and data architecture experience.
Experience in experimentation frameworks and understanding how to measure end user impacting metrics.
Deep Learning experience is a plus.
Background in statistics is an advantage.
Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments where passion for customer engagement and great experience are at the forefront of all design & development.


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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