Identifying and analyzing the actors, behaviors, and tactics behind AI-powered foreign influence campaigns that target democracies, disrupt public trust, and exploit emerging technologies.
Requirements
- Understanding of how generative AI systems work end-to-end, from data collection and pretraining through fine-tuning and inference
- Hands-on use of LLMs and experience red-teaming or evaluating failure modes (jailbreaks, hallucinations, bias, prompt injection, leakage)
- Understanding of current trends in open and closed models and their abuse by threat actors
- Ability to identify indicators of malicious AI use from behavioral and technical evidence
- Experience leveraging language skills for open-source research
- Experience in common database query languages (e.g. SQL) and Python is a plus.
- Expertise in a range of AI platforms and tools.
Responsibilities
- Research and assess cyber and malign influence threats at tactical and strategic levels by drawing on information from social media accounts and websites, foreign policy priorities and perspectives from open-source reporting.
- Understand the components of generative AI and how technology stacks produce AI outputs.
- Identify and triage AI abuses based on behavioral and technical indicators.
- Write threat intelligence reports for senior audiences on adversary influence actors, networks, and operations powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
- Work closely with the broader Microsoft Threat Intelligence team in its investigations of nation state cyber, influence, and AI-first actor investigations.
- Develop engaging presentations and brief various stakeholders under tight deadlines.
- Follow innovative, non-intrusive, law-abiding methods for detecting, diagnosing, and deterring the most advanced and prolific threats in the information environment.
Other
- This role is Onsite in the Microsoft New York Office.
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Spoken and written fluency in a language besides English is preferred.
- Ability to quickly and efficiently sift through data to identify trends, shifts, or key issues to incorporate into analysis for senior customers or decision makers.
