Principal Security Research Manager, Red Team

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: May 3, 2027

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The Principal Security Research Manager - Red Team will join the Microsoft Security team as a founding technical leader to build and guide an AI red team. This role involves leading hands-on red teaming of advanced AI models, agentic systems, and AI-enabled security products to discover exploitable behaviors before release. Key responsibilities include setting attack strategies, designing high-fidelity attack campaigns, and driving critical findings into durable engineering improvements. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in adversarial machine learning, agent security, offensive security, attack automation, and privacy. You will manage a team of specialists to track emerging AI attack techniques and real-world threat behavior. The work focuses on reducing product risk by converting recurring weaknesses into regression evaluations, adversarial environments, and stronger security controls across training and evaluation systems.

Skills

Adversarial Machine Learning Offensive Security Red Teaming Large Language Models Agentic Systems Attack Automation Privacy Predictive Analytics Statistics Prompt Injection Security Research Regression Evaluation

What you'll do

Build and develop a team of specialists in adversarial machine learning, agent security, and offensive security.
Set the attack strategy and severity bar for uncovering weaknesses in advanced AI models and agentic systems.
Lead hands-on red-team operations to discover exploitable behavior in models, training systems, and permissions before release.
Design and operationalize high-fidelity attack campaigns and automated suites to reproduce realistic threats at scale.
Drive critical findings to verified remediation with research, engineering, and product security teams.
Produce clear, reproducible evidence to enable rapid severity decisions and focused engineering action.
Track emerging AI attack techniques to evolve the team’s methods, tooling, and technical investments.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years experience, Master's and 6+ years experience, or Doctorate and 5+ years experience in a related field.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements.
3+ years of people management experience.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Experience leading red-team programs and making evidence-based risk decisions across complex technical stakeholders (preferred).
Hands-on expertise in adversarial machine learning or offensive security with technical fluency across AI systems and security operations (preferred).
Experience testing large language models, agentic systems, tool use, indirect prompt injection, or AI-enabled security products (preferred).
Experience hiring, coaching, and developing applied scientists, security researchers, or similarly specialized technical talent (preferred).

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