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AI Security and Safety Researcher

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Full Time
$100.6k - $234.7k
5 days ago
Worldwide
AI Security & Privacy
Mid
AI
Machine Learning
Python
+3 more

Job Description

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Are you a red teamer who is looking to break into the AI field? Do you want to find AI failures in Microsoft’s largest AI systems impacting millions of users? Join Microsoft’s AI Red Team where you'll emulate work alongside security and AI hacking experts to proactively test for failures in Microsoft’s big AI systems. We are looking for an AI Security and Safety Researcher to join our team.

As a red teamer dedicated to making AI security better and helping our customers expand with our AI systems, you'll apply the newest AI security, frontier harms, and safety research to emulate adversarial hacking on Microsoft’s Ai models, systems, products, and features. You will be advising product teams on how to mitigate risks before technology reaches our customers. Particularly, we are looking for a practitioner with deep academic or practical experience in AI frontier harms, such as cyber, autonomy, and loss of control of AI systems. In addition to that experience, we want AI-obsessed hacker-mindsets to come join our team.

Our team is an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers, Safety & Responsible AI experts, AI researchers, and software developers with the mission of proactively finding failures across all of Microsoft’s Ai portfolio. In this role, you will red team AI models, such as our Phi series and MAI models, and applications, including Bing Copilot, Security Copilot, Github Copilot, Office Copilot and Windows Copilot. This work is sprint based, working with AI Safety, Security, and Product Development teams, to run operations that aim to find safety and security risks before they happen. Our reporting and findings directly inform internal key business decision leadership. This a fast moving team with multiple roles and responsibilities within the AI Security and Safety space; people who love to provide agile, practical insights and who enjoy jumping in to solve ambiguous problems excel in this role. More about our approach to AI Red Teaming: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/07/microsoft-ai-red-team-building-future-of-safer-ai/ 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.



Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

  • Discover and exploit GenAI vulnerabilities end-to-end in order to assess the safety of systems.
  • Manage product group stakeholders as priority recipients and collaborators for operational sprints.
  • Drive clarity on communication and reporting for red teaming peers when working with product groups.
  • Develop methodologies, techniques, and research on emerging frontier AI threats to scale and accelerate AI Red Teaming and AI Safety & Security across Microsoft.
  • Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations.


Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 1+ year(s) 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 2+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Related fields include Machine Learning, AI security, and AI safety and more.
  • Related fields include: Chemistry, Biology, Nuclear Physics, AI Security, AI Safety, and Machine Learning.

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Security Research IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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

Security Research 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.




Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Requirements

  • Deep academic or practical experience in AI frontier harms, such as cyber, autonomy, and loss of control of AI systems.
  • Ability to emulate adversarial hacking on Microsoft’s AI models, systems, products, and features.
  • Experience with AI Safety, Security, and Product Development teams.
  • Ability to run operations that aim to find safety and security risks before they happen.
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and their applications.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • 401k Matching
  • Certification Support
  • Flexible Hours
  • Gym Membership
  • Health Insurance
  • Home Office Budget
  • Learning Budget
  • Paid Time Off

Skills

AI
Machine Learning
Python
Security
Red Teaming
Adversarial Machine Learning

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Salary Range
$100.6k - $234.7k
Posted 5 days ago

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