# Senior Data & Applied Scientist

OverviewMicrosoft's AI for CELA team is part of Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA), the organization that brings together legal, regulatory, public policy, compliance, and corporate affairs professionals to help Microsoft navigate complex issues and operate responsibly. The team is seeking a Senior Data & Applied Scientist to apply advanced data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to transform how these professionals capture knowledge, manage work, and respond to a rapidly changing regulatory environment. This role is aligned to the Data Science IC4 career stage. You will identify and frame complex, ambiguous problems; create project plans that account for risks, constraints, assumptions, and available resources; and connect technical measures to meaningful outcomes for legal professionals, business clients, and engineering teams. You will build AI-enabled knowledge-management capabilities that convert fragmented requests, guidance, communications, and work product into structured, governed, and reusable institutional knowledge. The work includes improving intake and triage, enabling high-quality search and summarization, generating draft guidance, ext

- **Id**: 4288814
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-data-applied-scientist-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:53:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T22:32:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 521
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.568
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T22:32:24Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T23:54:23Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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