Microsoft
Principal Data Scientist - FDE
$143K–$304K
United States +8 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- United States
Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
Austin, TX
Houston, TX
Chicago, IL
Cambridge, MA
New York, NY
Atlanta, GA - Experience
- 3+ years with a doctorate, 5+ with a master's, or 7+ with a bachelor's; preferred: 5+, 8+, or 12+ years respectively. Also preferred: 3+ years of customer-facing project delivery, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in a listed field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role.
About the job
Leads data science projects for customers, developing and evaluating models, experiments, and production-ready solutions tied to business outcomes.
What you'll do
- Oversee data acquisition and preparation, addressing data gaps and leading ethics and privacy discussions.
- Evaluate and improve models using business-outcome metrics; develop scalable operational models and review analysis methods.
- Set customer and solution strategy, partner across teams, and coach colleagues in data science practices.
What they ask for
- Degree in a listed quantitative or technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Data science experience: 3+ years with a doctorate, 5+ with a master's, or 7+ with a bachelor's; equivalent experience is also accepted.
Nice to have
- Experience partnering with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- 3+ years of customer-facing project delivery, professional services, and/or consulting experience; travel up to 25% (role dependent).
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Applies AI and data science across the development lifecycle and uses data science to build, evaluate, and deploy models.
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