Principal Security AI Researcher

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.

The CISO organization is looking for a visionary Principal Security AI Researcher to join the CTO’s security research team. This principal-level position will apply AI techniques to detect, analyze, and prevent cyber attacks. We are looking to create mechanical advantage with new methods to uncover attacks. You will lead complex research initiatives, apply techiques to incidents to refine them, and collaborate across AI, engineering, data science, and threat intelligence teams to shape the future of cyber defense. 

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

• Invent and develop novel detection methods for identifying cyber attacks. 
• Lead in-depth research projects on emerging attack vectors, tactics, and techniques used by advanced threat actors. 
• Apply the latest AI technologies to build agents to improve detection, reasoning, and mitigation of cyber attacks  
• Partner with threat hunters, redteam, and blueteam members on attack detection 
• Stay ahead of the curve by monitoring threat intelligence, security publications, and attacker trends. 

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications  

• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other machine learning frameworks.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience driving cutting-edge research into real world impact.  
• 2+ years of experience applying LLMs (Large Language Models, generative and/or representative) towards successful product outcomes.

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 follow