Principal AI Security and Safety Researcher

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Lead cross-domain frontier harms strategy, represent as industry frontier forums, and coach individual operator leads on specific harm areas. Discover and exploit GenAI vulnerabilities end-to-end in order to assess the safety of systems. Manage product group stakeholders as priority recipients and collaborators for operational sprints. Drive clarity on communication and reporting for red teaming peers when working with product groups. Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations while creating a culture of positive, inclusive problem solving.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Related Fields include: AI Security, AI Safety, Biology AND an applied background, Chemistry AND an applied background, Cybersecurity, Nuclear Physics, Machine Learning, and more.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-domain frontier harms strategy
• Represent as industry frontier forums
• Coach individual operator leads on specific harm areas
• Discover and exploit GenAI vulnerabilities end-to-end in order to assess the safety of systems
• Manage product group stakeholders as priority recipients and collaborators for operational sprints
• Drive clarity on communication and reporting for red teaming peers when working with product groups
• Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations while creating a culture of positive, inclusive problem solving.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees