AI Security Researcher II

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. Do you have research experience in AI security, adversarial machine learning, security for AI, and/or the study of agentic AI systems? Do you want to investigate how autonomous, tool-using, and multi-agent systems fail—and develop principled methods for evaluating and improving their security? Join Microsoft’s AI Red Team research team, where you will help define the frontier of AI security research for agents.

We are looking for an AI Security Researcher II who can frame open research questions, design rigorous experiments, analyze emerging risks in agentic systems, and translate findings into techniques that improve the security of Microsoft’s AI products. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, red teamers, and engineers focused on proactively understanding and reducing security risks in Microsoft’s big bet AI systems. Your work will impact Microsoft’s AI portfolio, including Phi series, Bing Copilot, Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Office Copilot, Windows Copilot and Azure OpenAI. We are open to remote work.

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

• Formulate and investigate research questions at the intersection of cybersecurity and agentic AI behavior, including security risks, failure modes, and adversarial behavior in agentic AI systems.