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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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AI Security Engineer
The AI Security Engineer joins the Microsoft Red Team to focus on Cyber Capability Evaluation for frontier AI models and agentic systems. This hands-on technical role involves designing, implementing, and operating offensive cyber-capability evaluations in controlled environments. The engineer will build and maintain evaluation tasks covering vulnerability analysis, exploit development, attack-path reasoning, and multi-step offensive workflows while managing cyber ranges and sandboxed infrastructure. Key responsibilities include executing experiments, analyzing model trajectories to distinguish genuine capabilities from artifacts, and collaborating with stakeholders to translate findings into security insights. Required skills include programming in Python, experience with large language models, generative AI systems, and coding models. The role addresses the critical challenge of determining how advanced AI systems might increase offensive cyber capabilities through reasoning, tool use, and autonomous execution within complex technical environments.