13 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of AI threat detection systems for prompt injection, memory poisoning, data exfiltration, agentic workflow abuse, and adversarial attacks.
- Develop security services, classifiers, evaluation frameworks, telemetry pipelines, and risk assessment systems for Copilot.
- Conduct threat modeling, identify security gaps, and develop defenses across AI workflows, orchestration layers, tools, and platform integrations.
- Partner with product and platform teams to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Investigate emerging attack techniques and drive root cause analysis and remediation following security incidents.
- Influence architecture, technical strategy, roadmap planning, and engineering investments related to AI security.
- Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and provide technical guidance through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead investigations during complex production security events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, C++, Go, Rust, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production software systems, distributed systems, cloud-native services, or platform infrastructure at scale.
- Experience identifying, analyzing, or mitigating security risks in production environments.
- Understanding of AI security challenges including prompt injection, indirect prompt attacks, memory poisoning, data exfiltration, model misuse, and agentic system risks.
- Experience with security detection systems, reputation systems, anomaly detection platforms, threat intelligence, abuse prevention, or Trust & Safety systems.
- Experience with large language models, AI systems, machine learning infrastructure, or evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with threat modeling, security reviews, red teaming, adversarial testing, or incident response.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives across teams, influence decisions without direct authority, and communicate technical tradeoffs.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 6+ years of experience or a bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred contributions include security tooling, patents, publications, open-source projects, or recognized technical leadership in security-related domains.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $160,200-$261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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.