Applied AI Engineer II

1 Month ago • 1-4 Years • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • $98,300 PA - $208,800 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft Security AI Research team seeks an Applied AI Engineer II to develop novel AI methods, frameworks, and systems enhancing defensive and red teaming capabilities. This role involves leveraging research from Microsoft, academia, and industry to build scalable, reliable, and secure AI solutions. Collaboration with internal/external partners on real-world scenarios is crucial. Responsibilities include applying strategies from senior team members, incorporating state-of-the-art research, and working with defenders, threat hunters, PMs, researchers, and engineers. The ideal candidate will document work, share findings, follow ethical and privacy policies, and ensure data integrity and system stability. The position requires experience shipping ML/AI-based services and a strong understanding of generative AI/agentic frameworks.
Must have:
  • 1+ years shipping ML/AI services
  • Experience with generative AI
  • Build scalable, reliable, secure AI solutions
  • Collaboration with internal/external partners
  • Document work and share findings
Good to have:
  • Experience with large-scale datasets
  • Cybersecurity domain experience
  • Safety and ethical aspects of AI
  • Excellent communication skills
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

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.

 

The Microsoft Security AI Research team is responsible for defending Microsoft and our customers through applied AI innovation. 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. Defending Microsoft’s complex environment provides a unique opportunity to build and evaluate autonomous defense and offense through emerging generative AI capabilities. Microsoft understands and learns from its own defensive and offensive expertise, including via teams like Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center and Microsoft’s Red Team, and has the opportunity to build a unique knowledge graph describing the relationship between risk, investigation, and response. This data, built over Microsoft’s complex digital estate, along with Microsoft AI forms the foundation for innovative solutions to defend Microsoft.

 

We are looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our applied science team to reshape how we defend Microsoft. You will actively innovate by leveraging and building upon a broad set of research from Microsoft, academia, and industry to develop novel AI methods, frameworks, and systems to enhance our defensive and red teaming capabilities. You will collaborate with internal and external partners on real-world scenarios and challenges and deliver scalable, reliable, and secure AI solutions. For those passionate about making a meaningful impact in the security industry, don’t miss this opportunity to join the team working on the latest AI technology and applicability. 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.

 

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.

 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., technical engineering, applied research)
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 1+ years related experience (e.g., technical engineering, applied research)
    • OR Doctorate in in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ years of experience in shipping ML/AI-based services or applications. 

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

  • Experiencewith generative AI/ agentic frameworks, multi modal models, training and fine-tuning of transformer-based models, information retrieval or reinforcement learning
  • Experience insafety andethical aspects of AI.
  • Experience in working with large-scale datasets.
  • Experience in cyber security and safety domains, such as malware detection, fraud prevention, cyber-physical systems, adversary tradecraft, emerging threats or SOC operations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to simplify and explain complex ideas.

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:  

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 3, 2025

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • You will document work in progress and share findings to promote innovation within a group. You’ll also learn and follow ethics and privacy policies while executing research processes or collecting information.
  •  You will apply strategies provided by senior team members and incorporate state-of-the-art research that builds transformative defensive and red teaming AI capabilities with demonstrated scientific rigor.

  • Work with defenders, threat hunters, PMs, researchers and engineers to turn research into effective solutions that improve our ability to protect ourselves.
  • Build industry leading systems that are scalable, reliable, and secure with appropriate monitoring and alerting.
  • You will document work in progress and share findings to promote innovation within a group. You’ll also learn and follow ethics and privacy policies while executing research processes or collecting information.
  • Follow release management policies to ensure data integrity, compliance, and system stability.

Other

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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