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Principal Data Scientist

Microsoft

Mountain View, California, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Nov 10, 2025
4 days / week in-office

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About the role

The Bing organization is looking for a Principal Data Scientist. The team is pushing the boundaries regarding our understanding for how users engage with search engines and then translates the insights into actionable metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Inform future directions of Bing’s A/B experimentation platform, and drive improvements to it.
  • Establish long-term A/B experimentation capabilities.
  • Understand A/B online experiments, online user engagement and produce actionable, trustworthy conclusions.
  • Develop strategies for understanding correlation between set of key Bing metrics and define overall ship decision criteria.
  • Continuously improve measurement of the key metrics and update the metrics according to new instrumented signals.
  • Develop tools to help analyze the movement of the metrics to help feature teams to understand why their changes impact the metrics.

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years data science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

About the Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Job Details

Salary Range

Salary not disclosed

Location

Mountain View, California, U.S.

Employment Type

Full-Time

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