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Principal AI Security and Safety Researcher

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Are you a red teamer who is looking to break into the AI field? Do you want to find AI failures in Microsoft’s largest AI systems impacting millions of users? Join Microsoft’s AI Red Team where you'll emulate work alongside security and AI hacking experts to proactively test for failures in Microsoft’s big AI systems. We are looking for a Principal AI Security and Safety Researcher who can be a red teamer dedicated to making AI security better and helping our customers expand with our AI systems. In AI red teaming, you'll apply the newest AI security, frontier harms, and safety research to emulate adversarial hacking on Microsoft’s Ai models, systems, products, and features, advising product teams on how to mitigate risks before technology reaches our customers. This role will also serve as our technical lead in AI frontier harms, such as autonomy, and loss of control of AI systems, uplift in chemistry or biology. Not only will you set cross-harm strategy and advise on implementation of Frontier Mondel Forum and industry best practices within the team, you’ll serve as a coach to the operators leading the individual harm strategies in each area on day-to-day red teaming. In addition to frontier experience, we want AI-obsessed hacker-mindsets to come join our team with leadership and comfort with ambiguity. The Team & Work: Our team is an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers, Safety & Responsible AI experts, AI researchers, and software developers with the mission of proactively finding failures across all of Microsoft’s AI portfolio. In this role, you will red team AI models, such as our Phi series and MAI models, and applications, including Bing Copilot, Security Copilot, Github Copilot, Office Copilot and Windows Copilot. This work is sprint based, working with AI Safety, Security, and Product Development teams, to run operations that aim to find safety and security risks before they happen. Our reporting and findings directly inform internal key business decision leadership. This role will also focus on our team’s approach to frontier AI model harms, requiring parallel tracking between Ai red teaming operations and driving strategy and informing industry-level discussions on autonomy, CBRN, harmful manipulation, cyber, and more novel harms. This a fast-moving team with multiple roles and responsibilities within the AI Security and Safety space; people who love to provide agile, practical insights and who enjoy jumping in to solve ambiguous problems excel in this role.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

  • 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 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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