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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
56 days ago

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Similar $181k
This role $177k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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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

Microsoft currently has 1103 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · | Microsoft Careers

Join the Microsoft Defender Experts research team as a Senior Applied AI Security Researcher and apply advanced AI techniques to protect customers from evolving cyber threats. You will collaborate with researchers and engineering teams to innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking attacks, leveraging large data sets to uncover novel attack methods in enterprise environments. Your role involves designing experiments to transform managed security services using AI, improving service delivery outcomes through partnerships with analysts and engineers. Ideal candidates have over four years of experience in cybersecurity, software development, and large-scale computing, along with expertise in generative AI, cloud-based threat detection, and working with extensive data sets using tools like Azure OpenAI Service, Python, and Splunk.

What you'll do

  • Apply AI techniques to explore and correlate large data sets for novel attack detection.
  • Partner with teams to enhance service delivery outcomes using AI innovations.
  • Identify and prioritize complex security issues affecting customer environments.
  • Design experiments to transform managed services through advanced AI applications.
  • Utilize in-the-wild data to target and mitigate negative impacts on customers.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity and threat research
  • Strong expertise in applying AI techniques to detect and track threats
  • Experience with large-scale data analysis and anomaly detection
  • Proficiency in using Azure OpenAI Service and other hosted AI tools
  • Ability to design and lead experiments for AI-driven security solutions
  • Comprehensive knowledge of operating system security and internals
  • Skilled in programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, C, or C++

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