Microsoft · 1 day ago
Senior Applied AI Security Researcher
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Senior Applied AI Security Researcher to join their Threat Protection Research team. The role involves leveraging AI techniques to enhance security services, innovate threat detection approaches, and collaborate with various teams to improve service delivery outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Leverage AI techniques and security operations experience to explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques and hunting in enterprise customer environments
Partner with researchers and engineering teams, and Defender Experts analysts, to use AI to improve our service delivery outcomes
Use advanced techniques and in-the-wild data to identify, prioritize, and target complex security issues that cause negative impact to customers
Design and lead experiments in the use of AI to transform our managed services business
Qualification
Required
4+ years experience in cybersecurity, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, and/or anomaly detection
4+ years of professional experience in investigating or researching cyber threats, understanding attacker methodology, tools, and infrastructure
Excellent communication skills and investigative practices
Experience in security research, incident response and attacker tradecraft
Experience applying generative AI to the information security domain
Experience creating solutions with a variety of large language models, understanding differences between models and how to compare them
Experience with hosted AI tools such as Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service
Experience working with extremely large data sets, using tools and scripting languages like Excel, KQL, SQL, Python, Splunk, and Power BI
Experience working with detection methodologies across multiple platforms
Ability to utilize attacker uptake and impact to prioritize security detection and remediation tasks
Experience with endpoint, cloud, network, and identity-based attacks and datasets
Comprehensive OS security/internals knowledge
Understanding of network protocols and analytical experience with network infrastructure data & telemetry
Reverse-engineering with static and behavioral binary analysis experience
Functional understanding of common threat analysis models such as the Diamond Model, Cyber Kill Chain, and MITRE ATT&CK
Programming or scripting background (Python, PowerShell, C, C++, etc.) is a plus
Company
Microsoft
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