Senior Applied AI Security Researcher

As a Senior Applied AI Security Researcher, you will work with researchers and partners across Microsoft to apply AI techniques that help deliver Microsoft Defender Experts services. You will innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, investigating attacks in customer environments, and leveraging AI techniques and security operations experience to explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques and hunting in enterprise customer environments.

What You Will Do

Your responsibilities will include working with researchers and partners to apply AI techniques, innovating new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, and leveraging AI techniques and security operations experience to explore and correlate large data sets.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires experience investigating security attacks, knowledge of endpoint, cloud, network, and identity-based attack patterns, threat actors behind those attacks, and the ability to use large data sets to conduct those investigations.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection
• OR equivalent experience

Benefits

• Security Research IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation