Senior Sustainability Scientist

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries. The Cloud Sourcing, Security and Sustainability (CS3) organization within CSCP manages sourcing, strategy, and suppliers to provide cost, flexibility, and supply advantages that enable our org to become a world-class supply chain. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable, on-time performance and optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. 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.

Translate LCA (life cycle assessment) and carbon accounting theory into operational, repeatable methodologies that can be executed at scale across cloud hardware portfolios. Lead large, cross-functional v-teams and independently drive ambiguous sustainability problems to completion; set direction, execute, and deliver measurable outcomes. Serve as a trusted applied science expert for sustainability decision-making across carbon and waste workstreams. Design, define, and operationalize sustainability methodologies (e.g., LCA governance and validation) and drive approval through established governance bodies and stakeholders. Act as a data steward, validating sustainability data and impact statements before communicating them to internal and external stakeholders; drive continuous improvement of data quality and completeness. Produce clear documentation of work, experiments, methodology decisions, and validation outcomes to ensure rigor, repeatability, and audit readiness. Develop and scale automation for repeatable sustainability processes (e.g., intake/triage of methodology requests, validation workflows, quality checks), freeing capacity for strategy and execution.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.  Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this