Microsoft

Senior AI Engineer, Security AI

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Information Technology
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with 4+ years of coding experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Master's degree or PhD in a relevant field preferred.
  • Experience designing experiments and evaluating AI systems' performance.
  • Familiar with innovative AI approaches like large language models and multi-modal security signals.
  • Strong analytical skills to translate real-world problems into AI problems.
  • Excellent communication skills to explain AI concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical innovation in AI.

Responsibilities

  • Design and advance AI solutions for security engineering workflows.
  • Translate security challenges into AI-driven hypotheses and experiments.
  • Develop novel approaches for synthesizing and reasoning over complex security data.
  • Enhance agent architectures and planning strategies for security contexts.
  • Establish evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for AI systems.
  • Analyze model behaviors to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to implement AI innovations into production.
  • Promote responsible AI practices ensuring safety, fairness, and transparency.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies in cybersecurity.
  • Potential for career advancement and leadership in technical innovation.
  • Engage in a collaborative and supportive work environment.
  • Access to professional development and ongoing training.
  • Participate in impactful projects with real-world implications.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and advance AI approaches using large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, feedback-driven optimization, multi-modal security signals, and rigorous evaluation frameworks to support security engineering and security operations workflows.
  • Translate open-ended security challenges into AI problems, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and develop measurable success criteria.
  • Develop innovative approaches for reasoning over complex security information, synthesizing context, identifying patterns, and generating actionable insights.
  • Design and improve agent architectures, planning and execution strategies, tool-use frameworks, memory systems, retrieval techniques, and grounding mechanisms for security applications.
  • Define evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, datasets, metrics, and testing frameworks to measure quality, accuracy, safety, robustness, trustworthiness, and real-world impact.
  • Analyze model behavior and failure modes, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop techniques to improve accuracy, actionability, and reliability.
  • Partner with engineering teams to operationalize AI innovations and integrate research advances into production systems.
  • Drive responsible AI practices, including fairness, transparency, safety, robustness, security, governance, and human oversight.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.


Other Requirements:

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Experience designing experiments, evaluating performance of AI models and systems, defining metrics, and applying scientific methods to improve AI system quality.
  • Experience with large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, feedback-driven optimization, multi-modal security signals, and rigorous evaluation frameworks.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex real-world challenges into tractable AI problems.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain AI concepts, methodologies, limitations, results, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience developing AI agents, copilots, autonomous workflows, tool-using systems, planning systems, or multi-agent architectures.
  • Experience with LLM evaluation, AI safety, adversarial testing, hallucination mitigation, prompt engineering, prompt injection defense, and responsible AI practices.
  • Experience with embedding models, vector search, retrieval systems, ranking algorithms, knowledge graphs, memory architectures, and context-grounding techniques.
  • Experience building evaluation datasets, benchmark suites, red-team methodologies, human evaluation frameworks, or trustworthiness assessment systems.
  • Experience applying AI to cybersecurity, including threat detection, vulnerability analysis, security operations, incident response, identity systems, or risk assessment.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical innovation, publish or operationalize novel approaches, influence technical strategy, and drive impactful AI advancements in ambiguous problem domains.


Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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