Lead AI Security Engineer
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Discover and exploit vulnerabilities across Microsoft's applications, cloud infrastructure, networks, and physical security to assess system resilience. Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related field, plus one or more years in security, vulnerability identification, or software engineering. Key skills include vulnerability discovery, adversarial tactics, and data analysis. Role is based at Microsoft locations across the U.S., with base pay ranging from $85,400–$168,100 annually, or $111,100–$183,700 in San Francisco and New York City.
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The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.
Are you passionate about identifying and exploiting security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of millions of users across the world? Join the Microsoft Red Team (MRT) organization, where you will emulate real-world advanced persistent threats against Microsoft. Our mission is to ensure Microsoft is prepared to face and respond to even the most determined adversaries by exploring innovative ways to identify and prevent security flaws.
We are looking for a Security Engineer to execute operations and collaborate with other experienced red teamers in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities across all layers of services, including application, cloud, network, hardware, physical, and operational security domains. You will work closely with developers and security personnel from multiple teams across Microsoft. Your work will ensure the security and resilience of some of the world's largest and most complex services in the world, including Microsoft acquisitions, financial systems, physical facilities, and the corporate network.
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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
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- Discovers and exploits vulnerabilities end-to-end in order to assess the security of systems and services
- Contributes to the execution of Red Team operations using real world adversarial tactics and techniques to validate Microsoft's ability to detect, investigate, and respond
- Advocates for security change through building partnerships and clearly communicating impact of risks
- Presents security risks to a large audience
- Analyzes a wide array of data sources, including source code, to identify potential security weaknesses and breach points within Microsoft’s infrastructure
- Leverages Artificial Intelligence and agentic approaches for vulnerability discovery and threat emulation
- Collaborates with Blue Teams to improve readiness and produce solutions for defenders and customers
- Analyzes simulated adversary tactics and communications, enriching our defensive tactics and threat intelligence
Required Qualifications:
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:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Penetration Testing IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company is also OpenAI's principal compute partner and ships AI tooling for developers through GitHub, VS Code and Azure AI.
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