Senior Data Scientist - Hyderabad @ Microsoft

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable systems for analyzing data across cyber intelligence knowledge graphs to identify, track and report on sophisticated attacker techniques, tools, and infrastructure.
• Utilize threat research to improve our analytic capabilities, develop new detection methodology, and influence the development of detection capability.
• Leverage the unique scope of Microsoft s data to keep our customers informed about cyber threats.
• Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow to improve quality and efficiency from ideation to deployment.
• Partner with Security Analysts and Researchers to design experiments to test new and novel methods of detecting adversaries.
• Document your processes and workflow in sharable documents for future reuse and adoption.
• Develop and foster strong, collaborative relationships with security analysts and researchers in the security community across our larger team and Microsoft.
• Understand AI research across the industry and academic research community and shape the research direction of the team.
• Communicate internally and externally through publication, presentations, and other mediums (e.g., blogs) on research progress, major breakthroughs and product innovation.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional Data Scientist experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience designing and developing software or services.

Preferred Skillsets and Experience:

• Experience working with high-volume, highly dimensional data at scale using distributed parallel processing systems (e.g. Hadoop, Spark), graph database technology (e.g. Neo4j, Azure Cosmos DB/Gremlin), as well as common document (No-SQL) and relational database technologies. (e.g. MongoDB, MySQL).
• Background in design and implementation of large-scale data mining and workflow systems.
• Programming or scripting experience leveraging industry standard ML and Data Science libraries (Python, R, Java, C# etc.)
• Ability to analyze and present complex data visually in a meaningful way.
• Excellent research skills with the ability to break long-term research goals into achievable milestones. Ability to clearly articulate the problems and explore related solutions.
• Excellent communication skills with an eye for detail and the ability to articulate business needs in cross-group and partner scenarios.
• Experience tracking cyber threats and leveraging intelligence on methodology, tools, and infrastructure.
• Strong drive for results. You are motivated to solve research challenges.