My team, the Office of the Chief Economist at Microsoft, is hiring data scientists! We get a front row seat to some of the most interesting business problems at the company, so please consider applying if you're a DS interested in economics jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

My group, the Office of the Chief Economist at Microsoft, is hiring an economist! Our team gets to work with partners across the company to solve interesting and complex problems using a combination of theory and empirics. Please apply if interested! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

My group at Microsoft is hiring again! This time looking for junior candidates specifically wanting to study advertising. Academic friends (econ or business school especially), please let me know if you have PhD students we should look at! Listing here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

We’ve been cooking... a new open weights 14B Phi-4 reasoning model, SFT’d on ~1.4M carefully curated reasoning demonstrations from o3-mini and RL’d for a tiny bit. This model is a little beast.

Decided to try making a dedicated tech blog because doing it through my main website has proved painful: jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/. Starting strong with another post about open source demand estimation