Microsoft
Senior Data Scientist - M365 Copilot, Agents & Platform - Turing Team
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- Required: 1+ year(s) with a doctorate, 3+ years with a master's degree, or 5+ years with a bachelor's degree; OR equivalent experience. Preferred: 3+ years with a doctorate, 6+ years with a master's degree, or 8+ years with a bachelor's degree; OR equivalent experience. Also preferred: 4+ years using listed or similar languages for large-scale data analysis.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops measurement and evaluation for Microsoft 365 Copilot by analyzing large-scale data, designing experiments, and turning findings into product recommendations.
What you'll do
- Prepare and analyze large-scale structured and unstructured datasets and build representative evaluation datasets.
- Design experiments, metrics, and evaluation studies; assess results, statistical significance, and alignment between human and LLM evaluations.
- Collaborate across teams and communicate findings, limitations, and recommendations to guide product decisions.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in a listed quantitative or computing field and 1+ year(s) of data-science experience; OR a master's degree and 3+ years; OR a bachelor's degree and 5+ years; OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Doctorate and 3+ years of data-science experience; OR master's degree and 6+ years; OR bachelor's degree and 8+ years; OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years using Python, SQL, KQL, R, or similar languages to analyze large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay)
Tools
Python, SQL, KQL, R, Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI focus
Applies data analysis, experimentation, and evaluation to AI development, including Copilot and LLM-based systems; builds evaluation datasets and compares LLM-based evaluations with human evaluations.
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