[Hiring] Senior AI Security Researcher @Microsoft

Role Description

Security represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers amid rapidly evolving digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission to secure digital technology platforms, devices, clouds, and AI systems across customers' heterogeneous environments and Microsoft's own internal estate.

Microsoft Red Team (MRT) helps Microsoft anticipate emerging threats and strengthen the security of products, services, and AI systems. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will research adversarial AI-agent systems, with an emphasis on coordinated and swarm-like behavior. You will:

• Lead applied research on adversarial AI agents and coordinated multi-agent or swarm-like behavior.
• Characterize coordination patterns, behavioral signatures, provenance, and adaptation across agent populations.
• Build instrumented environments for observing and measuring agent coordination under controlled security scenarios.
• Develop and evaluate methods to detect, attribute, interrupt, and contain coordinated offensive agent swarms.
• Stress-test methods across changing models, tools, topologies, and operating conditions to identify evasion paths and failure modes.
• Produce reproducible evaluation assets and security guidance for red-team and defense partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research) OR
• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR
• Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.
• Different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company Description

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.