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The Senior Security Researcher joins the core machine learning and data science team to defend against cybersecurity attacks. This role involves investigating ongoing attacks to develop durable detection and prevention strategies across the kill-chain. Day-to-day responsibilities include running telemetry-based attack investigations, performing light reverse-engineering, and designing, coding, and maintaining client-side and cloud machine learning and automation systems. The researcher will experiment with large language models and agentic systems while participating in incident management, postmortems, and root-cause analysis. Key technical requirements include experience with classical and deep learning machine learning methods, coding, and large-scale computing. The work focuses on providing preventative protection, post-breach detection, and automated response for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint products within heterogeneous customer environments.
Investigate and analyze ongoing cybersecurity attacks to develop durable detection and prevention strategies.
Run telemetry-based attack investigations and threat hunting combined with light reverse-engineering.
Design, code, and maintain client-side and cloud machine learning and automation systems.
Experiment with and apply large language models and agentic systems to protect customers.
Diagnose and triage technical issues to support incident management and maintain product quality.
Participate in postmortem and root-cause analysis processes for security incidents.
Develop big data pipelines and run experiments to deploy protection at scale.
What we're looking for
Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development, threat analysis, or cybersecurity.
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development, threat analysis, or cybersecurity.
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development, threat analysis, or cybersecurity.
Equivalent experience to the educational and experience requirements listed above.
Ability to pass Microsoft and Microsoft Cloud background checks.
2+ years of experience with coding (preferred).
1+ years of experience with language models or machine learning (preferred).
Experience in classical and deep learning machine learning methods (preferred).
Vulnerability Research
Offensive Security
Exploit Development
Reverse Engineering
AI
Threat Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Software Development Lifecycle
Cybersecurity
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Vulnerability Research
Offensive Security
Exploit Development
Reverse Engineering
AI
Threat Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Software Development Lifecycle
Large-scale Computing
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Azure
AWS
GCP
Python
Go
C#
TypeScript
Terraform
Bicep
CloudFormation
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Active Directory
Entra ID
Okta
Linux
Windows
infrastructure-as-code
Identity Federation
Security Telemetry