Microsoft · 1 day ago
Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Safety - MAI Super Intelligence Team
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. The Member of Technical Staff for Multimodal Safety will develop and implement safety methodologies for multimodal large language models, ensuring their safe behavior and alignment with organizational values.
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Responsibilities
Leverage expertise in multimodal safety to uncover potential risks and develop novel mitigation strategies, including alignment techniques and robustness improvements for multimodal large language models. The ideal candidate has experience with diffusion models and image, video, or audio generation
Create and implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks and red-teaming methodologies to assess model safety across diverse scenarios, edge cases, and potential failure modes
Build automated safety testing systems, generalize safety solutions into repeatable frameworks, and write efficient code for safety pipelines and intervention systems
Maintain a user-oriented perspective by understanding safety needs from user perspectives, validating safety approaches through user research, and serving as a trusted advisor on multimodal safety matters
Track advances in multimodal safety research, identify relevant state-of-the-art techniques, and adapt safety algorithms to drive innovation in production systems serving millions of users
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
Proven expertise in multimodal LLM safety with experience in diffusion models and generative image/video/audio
Track record building evaluation frameworks, automated red‑teaming, and reusable guardrail systems for safety at scale
Experience in safety pipelines and user‑validated safety decisions across product teams
Company
Microsoft
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