Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place by reshaping security and empowering users, customers, and developers 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.
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
- Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
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.
- Partner closely with engineering and product to translate innovations into shipped experiences.
- Design objective benchmarks and quality gates.
- Mentor 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.
- Shape the next generation of secure, trustworthy AI for our customers.
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.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- Consistent with applicable law, 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.
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