Senior Security Researcher

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Mar 29, 2027

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This role $177k

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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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TL;DR · Senior Security Researcher

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As a Senior Security Researcher within the FORGE Lab, you will join a team focused on autonomous security engineering by combining offensive security research with frontier AI capabilities. You will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge research to discover, validate, and analyze vulnerabilities across Microsoft products, cloud services, and strategic open-source ecosystems. Your daily work involves designing and developing scalable automation, AI-driven systems, and research tooling to accelerate vulnerability discovery and triage workflows. You will also lead offensive security assessments to identify emerging threat patterns and novel attack techniques while collaborating with engineering teams to improve security posture. The role requires expertise in vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and automated exploit generation. This position addresses the challenge of identifying and remediating security risks within large-scale software systems through advanced AI-driven security workflows and multi-model agentic platforms.

Skills

Vulnerability Research Offensive Security Exploit Development Reverse Engineering Software Development Lifecycle Threat Analysis Anomaly Detection Open Source Cybersecurity Automated Exploit Generation Security Research

What you'll do

Conduct research to discover, validate, and analyze vulnerabilities across Microsoft products and open-source ecosystems.
Develop scalable automation and AI-driven systems to accelerate vulnerability discovery and triage workflows.
Build tools to automate the identification and proof of exploitable vulnerabilities in software.
Perform offensive security assessments to identify emerging threat patterns and novel attack techniques.
Drive vulnerability mitigation efforts to improve security posture and reduce customer risk.
Publish high-quality technical findings and influence large-scale software systems or open-source projects.

What we're looking for

A Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field is required.
A Master's degree in a relevant field and 3+ years of experience in software development, threat analysis, or vulnerability research is required.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of experience in software development, threat analysis, or vulnerability research is required.
Equivalent experience to the specified educational requirements is accepted.
Ability to pass Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background checks is required.
Experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, or offensive security research (preferred).
Participation in recognized security competitions like CTF, Pwn2Own, or similar initiatives (preferred).

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