Microsoft · 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer - AI Safety and Security
United States, New York, New York
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering users and organizations globally. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - AI Safety and Security to develop and execute technical strategies for securing AI products and capabilities, partnering with cross-functional teams to enhance threat detection and response processes.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
AI Logging and Observability: Develop company-wide logging strategies and implementations, enabling reliable attack mapping and automated detections; understand the architecture and pipelines for existing logging, data storage, and observability systems; and determine what additional infrastructure should be built
Detection Engineering: Partner with AI Incident Response and Threat Hunting teams to create novel detection capabilities; build infrastructure that enables meta-cognition, mechanistic interpretability, and anomaly detection, to identify patterns of attack signatures at scale
Threat Intelligence: Deliver data integrations across multiple data sources and platforms; serve diverse stakeholder needs for threat intelligence; partner with data science to operationalize pipelines that aggregate and correlate multi-source signals; deliver actionable insights, trend analyses, and automated reporting integrated with detection and response workflows
Mitigations: Partner with AI Red Team, applied science, and security research to implement mitigation strategies against emerging attack techniques; partner with product teams to demonstrate safe system architecture design
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Demonstrated technical depth with LLM-based systems—prompts, system instructions, agents/tools, RAG, embeddings—and experience building or securing AI copilots or agent-based products
Demonstrated record of successfully operating in highly ambiguous environments and integrating solutions into varied environments
Experience with cybersecurity workflows (alerting, triage, investigation, threat hunting, incident response) and familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or OWASP for LLM applications
Exceptional written and verbal skills; adept at articulating business needs and driving alignment across engineering, research, and security teams
Designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration
Applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures
Building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization
Company
Microsoft
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