# Principal Data Scientist - FDE

OverviewIn the Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering team, you won’t just build software; you’ll deliver real outcomes for some of the world’s most complex organizations. We are a global team of world-class engineers who have been working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model for more than a decade, embedding directly within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges, side-by-side, and shipping production-ready solutions in days, not months. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will help transform how organizations use data, developing models, running experiments, and driving evidence-based decisions that have measurable business impact. You’ll work in small, multidisciplinary crews alongside engineers, product managers, and domain experts, owning the full lifecycle from data discovery through to deployed solutions, for the Government, Defense and Intelligence industry Our work is powered by AI, applying the mindset and tooling across the entire development lifecycle to move from idea to production in days while maintaining the highest standards of security, quality, and trust. This role offers the opportunity to: Work with messy, real-world datasets and turn them int

- **Id**: 4019928
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-data-scientist-fde-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Countries**: SA
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- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T07:18:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T14:30:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 13
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- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

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- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
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- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

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- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T14:30:56Z

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