2 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct endpoint threat research, including malware reverse engineering, exploitation, defense evasion, persistence, and emerging threats.
- Investigate false positives, false negatives, missed detections, and customer escalations to improve Microsoft Defender protection quality.
- Analyze MDE telemetry, malware samples, threat intelligence, customer incidents, and hunting data to identify attack patterns and protection gaps.
- Own detection development end to end, including hypothesis formation, technical analysis, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and tuning.
- Use AI and agentic workflows to automate investigation, enrichment, malware analysis, detection development, testing, and validation.
- Act as a tier-2 escalation point and coordinate cross-team work across research, telemetry, engineering, and product groups.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or a related field plus 3+ years of relevant experience; or a master's degree plus 3+ years; or a bachelor's degree plus 4+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Relevant experience may include software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, or anomaly detection.
- An active TS/SCI clearance and willingness and eligibility to upgrade to TS/SCI with polygraph are required.
- Candidates must be able to maintain the required clearance and pass Microsoft, customer, government, and Microsoft Cloud background screening requirements.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required because of citizenship-based legal restrictions supporting government customers.
- Preferred qualifications include a doctorate plus 3+ years, a master's degree plus 6+ years, or a bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.