Senior Battery Data Scientist

Are you looking to join a fast-paced team delivering industry leading products? Microsoft’s Surface is looking for a talented individual to join the Battery team to design leading edge battery packs. As a Battery Data Scientist, you will be working on the latest technology and materials to give Surface products energy sources that are compact, lightweight, and bring the best experience to users. 

As a Senior Battery Data Scientist on the Surface Battery Team, you will be enabling the use of data throughout the product lifecycle to help your team make better design decisions and to help our partners in manufacturing continually raise the bar for quality. The repositories of data for Battery are not all complete nor connected so the Data Scientist will need to have persistence, perseverance, and excellent organization skills to reach a state where there is a continuous flow of valid data. Reaching this end goal will be extensive work partnering with teams in Supply Chain Engineering, Reliability, and Data Science.

 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Calling attention to and understanding trends in field data that need to be addressed.
• Working with extended battery development team to ensure that dev device data is accurate and that devices are performing as expected.
• Creating dashboards to make battery team data analysis more efficient.
  Analyzing key groups of devices to understand how they are different from the larger population and mining data for specific devices.
• Maintaining battery data fidelity across generations of device and telemetry software.
• Defining and guiding next generation battery data analytics.
• Combining manufacturing and repair datasets with field data as required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Doctorate in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 1+ year(s) experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR Master's Degree in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 5+ years experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 7+ years experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR equivalent experience
• Ability to combine large and complex data sets, to scrub the data, and to make actionable conclusions using a variety of tools including AI and machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Doctorate in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 3+ years experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR Master's Degree in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 7+ years experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry (Electrical), Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering AND 9+ years experience working with batteries manufactured overseas, testing characterization screenings, lithium-ion battery component development or implementation, running battery tests, and product design (e.g., consumer electronics)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of statistics as it relates to data analysis.
• Demonstrated competence with dashboard tools such as PowerBI.
• Ability to use machine learning and other techniques to gain insights from data.

Battery Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 29, 2025.

 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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