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Microsoft · 5 hours ago

Principal Security Research Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

Microsoft is a leading technology company aiming to reshape security and empower users with innovative solutions. The Principal Security Research Manager will lead a simulation team responsible for designing and implementing large-scale virtual environments and capture-the-flag challenges to enhance AI security capabilities.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead a multi-disciplinary team including security researchers, applied scientists, and engineers to design and implement large-scale virtual environments representing real world network design, breach paths, and benign traffic patterns

Design and plant end-to-end CTF challenges within these environments, working together with our larger team to challenge and grow both AI red team and AI blue team capabilities

Partner with research and engineering to implement agentic wargames and self-driven learning approaches, improving both AI red and AI blue team solutions

Qualification

StatisticsComputer ScienceCybersecurityGenerative AIC/C++JavaPythonRustLarge-scale computingThreat analysisVulnerability researchAnomaly detectionSimulation environmentsCTF challengesCloud environmentsPeople managementCollaboration

Required

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR equivalent experience

1+ year(s) people management experience

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Preferred

Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection

OR equivalent experience

3+ years people management and/or informal/indirect team leadership experience

8+ years of computer security industry experience with knowledge of adversary tradecraft, security operations, incident response, threat hunting, and of emerging threats and techniques for attacks against modern cloud environments

6+ years of experience researching, prototyping, and authoring threat detection or remediation in live production environments

Hands on experience with generative AI including building agentic systems, vibe-coding, or model benchmarking/fine-tuning

Code fluency in either C/C++, Java, Python, or Rust

Experience collaborating with external partners, customers, or cross-functional teams

Experience designing large-scale simulation environments or CTF challenges

Hands on experience deploying and maintaining cloud environments, tenants, or subscriptions in Azure

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1M

Key Investors

Technology Venture Investors

2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity

1986-03-13IPO

1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO

Vukani Mngxati

Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa

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