Senior Security Researcher
Microsoft
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This role pays less than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $154,900–$221,850 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $188k 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 694 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 651 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Senior AI Security Researchers The Senior AI Security Researchers join the Microsoft Security Research team to address the expanding attack surface created by large language models, copilots, and autonomous agents. In this role, you will lead the design and execution of simulations to make AI safer by conducting realistic attacks. Day-to-day responsibilities include executing direct and indirect prompt injections, jailbreaks, multimodal injections, and agentic tool-use abuse. You will build scalable red teaming tooling, automation, and evaluation frameworks to test AI systems continuously. You must utilize Python to develop attack harnesses and research tools while mapping findings to frameworks like MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. This work focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in RAG sources, training data, and safety filters to inform product mitigations.
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