Senior Applied AI Engineer Full-time

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.

The Microsoft Security AI Research team is responsible for defending Microsoft and our customers through applied AI innovation. 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. Defending Microsoft’s complex environment provides a unique opportunity to build and evaluate autonomous defense through emerging generative AI capabilities. Microsoft understands and learns from its own defensive expertise, including via teams like MSTIC, and has the opportunity to build a unique knowledge graph describing the relationship between risk, investigation, and response. This data, built over Microsoft’s complex digital estate, along with Microsoft AI forms the foundation for innovative solutions to defend Microsoft. We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join a newly created team to reshape how we defend Microsoft. You will establish and build processes, infrastructure, frameworks, and solutions to empower research scenarios: from data engineering, construction of training data sets, creation of new telemetry sources, building of knowledge graphs, and creation of agentic AI systems or new security-focused language models. You would be responsible for working together with applied scientists to develop research prototypes to solve real-world scenarios and challenges. For those interested in making a meaningful impact in the security industry, don’t miss this opportunity to join the team working on the latest AI technology and applicability.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

1. AI Development and Autonomy:

• Collaborate with applied research and product teams to develop advanced AI services and automation tools aimed autonomously defending Microsoft. Your work will accelerate detection, containment, investigation, and remediation processes.

2. AIOps System Architecture:

• Design and implement a scalable AIOps system for experimentation and production environments, ensuring robust and efficient operations.

3. Experimentation:

• Participate in the development of our AI experimentation and observation platform, driving continuous improvement of AI models and Agentic AI.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with technical staff from other Microsoft Security products to integrate and enhance security solutions.

5. Technical Design and Innovation:

• Develop comprehensive technical designs and architectures to transition research innovations into practical, shipping products.

6. Leadership and Collaboration:

• Foster leadership and collaboration across research and product teams, breaking down silos and driving collective success.

Other

• Embody our Culture & Values

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 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
• Experience in shipping at least one large-scale ML/AI-based service or application, preferably in the security domain on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Cloud ML and SaaS engineering experience

Other Requirements:

Ability 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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.
• Experience in SecDevOps and MLOps/AIOps.
• Experience in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other machine learning frameworks.
• Experience working with LLMs (Large Language Models) and OSS GenAI (agent-based) frameworks.
• Experience in at least three of the following: Apache Spark, GraphDBs, VectorDB, Python, LLMs (OpenAI, etc.), C#, Azure and/or AWS APIs and Services.

Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 – $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 – $250,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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