Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Senior Applied Scientist - AI Safety and Security
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that aspires to make the world a safer place through its Security organization. The Senior Applied Scientist - AI Safety and Security will research and develop innovative solutions to detect AI abuse and mitigate threats, collaborating with various teams to enhance the safety and security of Microsoft's AI products.
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Responsibilities
Advance the science: Design and run experiments, train models, and develop techniques and pipelines in areas like reinforcement learning, fingerprinting, meta-cognition, and mechanistic interpretability — all while upholding best practices in Responsible AI and Privacy-Preserving ML
Push state-of-the-art detection and threat hunting capabilities: explore and optimize detection approaches that enable investigators to do sophisticated searches for attack signature similarity and large-scale pattern matching or anomaly detection
Drive AI Safety and Security innovation: Partner with Engineering and PM to translate research into product and security platform vision, experimenting with new mitigation approaches like model activation analysis or drift detection
Collaborate across Microsoft: Work closely with Microsoft Research, Defender, Azure, AI platform teams, and product groups to bring cutting-edge AI into real-world applications
Stay ahead: Keep up with the latest research and foster a thriving applied science culture. Publishing is encouraged, though not required
Qualification
Required
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
Candidates must be able 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience
3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
Experience training or fine-tuning models and building ML experimentation systems. Technical experience with ML tools like PyTorch and data tools like Spark
Experience with synthetic data generation and data management for evaluation/training
Experience publishing research papers and/or obtaining patents
Deep motivation for user-centric AI safety and security, and interest in detections and mitigations
Experience with large-scale embedding models and transformer architectures
Familiarity with advanced concepts in AI safety, such as metacognition and mechanistic interpretability
Company
Microsoft
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