Senior Software Engineer - AI

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.

We are part of the Defender Experts product unit (part of Microsoft’s Security division). Our mission is to help protect our customers with innovative AI-powered & full-stack capabilities, combined with human-powered intelligence. We are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated capabilities to protect their digital assets.  Making our customers succeed with our solutions is what excites us every day! We are a diverse group with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, prior work & life experiences. We foster a culture of learning & a collaborative work environment. We are building multiple managed services/product offerings for Enterprise customers. Our products combine backend/cloud services, Big Data processing, and state-of-the-art Generative AI/LLMs to deliver scalable and intelligent solutions. With an intuitive and easy-to-use UX, we aim to delight both our customers and security researchers. Our products offer a big growth opportunity for our division. We work with partners across the Microsoft Security division (including the Security CoPilot team) to innovate in our products and services. 

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer that's excited about building capabilities that help protect our customers from cybersecurity threats? Do you enjoy designing & building full-stack products that provide value to our Enterprise customers? Do you thrive in a collaborative and data-driven environment? Do you enjoy working with talented feature teams including software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and security researchers? If so, you'll love our collaborative, agile, and fun group with a startup mindset.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join AI Team in the Defender Experts Organization. Key responsibilities include the following:

• Design, implement and deploy AI-powered capabilities utilizing exploratory data analysis, model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Perform deep analysis of multi-faceted data such as natural language text, security logs, general application logs and others.
• Leverage state of the art AI technologies like Transformers Neural Networks, Embeddings, Vector stores and LLMs to solve security problems.
• Help the team in all aspects of building AI features from inception to productization to monitoring in production.
• Support, mentor, and help other engineers and data scientists. - Partner closely with Data Science, Product Management, and Security Research teams.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8