Principal Security Researcher
Microsoft
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IBM is a US-based global technology company providing hybrid cloud, AI, consulting, enterprise software, and IT infrastructure products and services.
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As an AI Security Researcher within IBM Research, you will join a team of scientists and engineers dedicated to advancing fundamental science and publishing in top-tier journals while building next-generation solutions for real-world security challenges. You will design, implement, and analyze state-of-the-art tools and systems to improve security operations, specifically focusing on risk and threat analysis, vulnerability discovery, and agentic security. Your daily work involves researching novel techniques to secure agents against emerging threats and integrating research findings into product development. To succeed, you must possess strong development skills in Python, Rust, or TypeScript, alongside expertise in cybersecurity, network systems, and machine learning for security tasks like anomaly detection. You will address critical problems involving vulnerability triage, remediation, and the hardening of automated systems and software components.
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