Senior Security Researcher
Job Summary
Job Description
- Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in relevant field (Biology, Chemistry, etc.)
- 4+ years (Bachelor's)/3+ years (Master's)/1+ year (PhD) related experience
- AI experience
- Adversarial mindset
- Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements
- Biosecurity experience
- AI in biology/chemistry
- Wet lab experience
- CBRN weapons background
- Penetration testing qualifications
7 skills required
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.
Do you want to find responsible 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 experts to cause trust and safety failures in Microsoft’s big AI systems. We are looking for a Senior AI Safety Researcher with experience in CBRN or the intersection of biology, chemistry and AI to push the boundaries of AI Red Teaming. You will leverage your background in biology or chemistry when red teaming frontier models so as to help with identifying the risks of the model producing CBRN content. In other times, you will be working with a fast paced, interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers, and Responsible AI experts with the mission of proactively finding failures 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 and Windows Copilot and help keep Microsoft’s customers safe and secure.
Ideal candidates will have a background in biology or chemistry with experience in AI, with a passion for learning Cybersecurity and Trust/Safety. Prior experience in threat modeling, red teaming, or anything that demonstrates an adversarial mindset, is an added bonus.
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.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research).
- OR Master's Degree in Biology, Chemistry Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR Doctorate in Biology, Chemistry Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR Master's Degree in Biology, Chemistry Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
- This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR Doctorate in Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR equivalent experience.
- OR Doctorate in Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- Previous experience in biosecurity
- Prior experience in using AI in the context of biology/chemistry such as building protein language model, ML for pharmaceutical industry
- Prior wetlab experience
- Prior experience working in CBRN
- 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
- Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
- 3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
- 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
- 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
- CBRN weapons background Penetration testing qualifications; GPEN/GXPN, GWAPT, OSCP/OSCE, CRT/CCT/CCSAS, Participation in bug bounties/CTFs.
- Experience of using common penetration testing tools; Kali Linux, Burpsuite, Nmap, Nessus, etc
- Familiarity with one or more programming languages from: Python, C#, C/C++, PowerShell
- Prior knowledge of Generative AI not required, but basic familiarity with AI or willingness to learn is desired.
Applied Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 May 1, 2025.
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Responsibilities
As a Senior Security Researcher, you will:
- 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, other AI Safety & Security ecosystem leads, and business decision makers.
- Develop methodologies and techniques to scale and accelerate AI Red Teaming.
- Collaborate with teams to influence measurement and mitigations of these vulnerabilities in AI systems.
- Research new and emerging threats to inform the organization.
- Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations.
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