Senior Applied Researcher (March 2021)

Senior Applied Researcher – Observability AIOps

Observability is the convergence of the massive telemetry and analytics platforms powering Azure and everything on it, Windows and Xbox. Observability offers a portfolio of massive scale platforms and solutions to monitor the health and performance of your systems and applications across the stack (IaaS, K8s, PaaS, SaaS and all types of clients) and surface actionable insights.  

Our team in the Israel R&D center, drives AIOps into all layers of the Observability portfolio by harnessing data science, ML paradigms and statistical inference deep into the technology and customer facing experiences.  A few examples are Dynamic Alerts, Smart Alerts, Smart Detection and Smart Grouping of alerts. And there are many more internally facing magics. 

Observability ingests and processes ~225 PB of data daily with a +100% growth YoY. We’re inviting you to come help us innovate and make the most out of this data. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate Senior to Principal applied researcher with a strong technical background and diverse approach to solving problems. You will be working closely with Product Management and Engineering disciplines to create and deliver unique and competitive value to our customers. You will be challenged to select and apply the right paradigm for a solution out of many options at hand (machine learning, time series analysis, statistical inference, and other data science toolkits). To be successful you will need to demonstrate passion for data mining and to making happy customers at equal levels. Coding will be done in a variety of languages and mainly C# and Python. 

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Computer Sciences / Mathematics / Physics 

Programming experience (C#/Python) 

Fundamental knowledge of Machine Learning & Data Mining theory and algorithms 

Demonstrated experience in solving difficult problems connecting theory with real world impact. 

Advantage: Relevant publications in machine learning / vision / NLP / data mining conferences 

Advantage: knowledge of statistical inference theory and applications 

Team player - strong interpersonal and communications skills 

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