Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all by reshaping security and empowering every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The team builds and operates large-scale AI training and adaptation engines that power Microsoft Security products, turning cutting-edge research into dependable, production-ready capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience with privacy preserving ML including differential privacy concepts, privacy risk assessment, and utility measurement on privatized data.
- Proven track record of building and training large language models or multimodal models for production scenarios, including continual pretraining and task specific adaptation.
Responsibilities
- lead end-to-end model development for security scenarios, including privacy-aware data curation, continual pretraining, task-focused fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and rigorous evaluation.
- deepen model reasoning and tool-use skills, and embed responsible AI and compliance into every stage of the workflow.
- partnering closely with engineering and product to translate innovations into shipped experiences, designing objective benchmarks and quality gates, and mentoring scientists and engineers to scale results across globally distributed teams.
- combine strong coding and experimentation with a systems mindset to accelerate iteration cycles, improve throughput and reliability, and help shape the next generation of secure, trustworthy AI for our customers.
- Defines and collects the information that is needed and analyzes information to gain insight into and address complex security problems and threats.
- Tracks advances within the industry, identifies relevant research, and adapts algorithms and/or techniques to develop new tools and automations.
- Leverages knowledge of work being done on team to propose future efforts.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- 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.
- Works with others to incorporate findings into future designs and analyses (e.g. creates working groups).
- Sought by others for expertise. Demonstrates thought leadership.
- Influences direction and best practices across the organization. Leads, facilitates, and participates in industry and company-wide forums.
