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Applied Scientist

2 years experience
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Microsoft

Software, cloud & services
86.9
Palpable Score
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Overview

Are you passionate about Cloud Computing technology and driving growth in one of Microsoft’s core businesses? Do you aspire to be part of a team relentlessly focused on customer needs, market expansion, and advancing Microsoft Cloud’s first strategy?  If yes, look no further than Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I).   CO+I is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services.  CO+I is responsible for designing, building, and operating our unified global datacenters, managing the supply planning and capacity utilization of our unified infrastructure, and is responsible for all operations needed to run the physical infrastructure including supply chain, hardware, power, security, and workflow teams.    We are seeking an Applied Scientist with strong data and software engineering expertise.  Our team develops long-range capacity plans for Azure datacenters by leveraging advanced demand forecasting models, business strategies, and a wide array of data sources.  In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining our demand planning engine, designing robust data pipelines to integrate diverse datasets, and generating scalable capacity plans aligned with evolving business needs.  You will also support the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)—Microsoft’s company-wide effort to proactively identify and remediate security vulnerabilities—by ensuring our planning systems and data workflows meet the highest standards of security and resilience.   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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Other Requirements:  

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Preferred Qualifications:

About the company

Microsoft

Company overview
Microsoft is a global technology company best known for Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure cloud services, and developer tools like GitHub and Visual Studio. Microsoft also builds consumer and enterprise products across gaming (Xbox), search and advertising, cybersecurity, and AI products such as Copilot. Microsoft sells mainly to enterprises, governments, developers, and consumers through a mix of subscriptions, cloud usage, and device and software licensing. Microsoft operates at massive global scale and runs large, repeatable hiring pipelines for both students and full-time roles.

Locations and presence

Microsoft has major offices and engineering hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, with a large global footprint across many cities listed on Microsoft Careers. Microsoft has been tightening hybrid expectations, including an update to three in-office days per week that starts rolling out from the Puget Sound area from late February 2026.

Palpable Score

86.9
/ 100
Microsoft offers some of the clearest and most repeatable early-career entry points in tech, spanning first-year internships, new-grad hiring, sales and customer-facing early-in-profession tracks, and apprenticeship-style routes. The hiring process is structured and widely documented, and learning support is visible across multiple programs, though team-to-team variation still matters once someone lands. Pay tends to be competitive with strong benefits, and outcomes look positive, but Microsoft does not publish consistent early-career retention and promotion metrics.
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