Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Principal AI Safety Program Manager
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is committed to the advancement of AI driven by ethical principles and is seeking a Principal AI Safety Program Manager to create strategies on improving their approach to AI Security & Safety. The role involves identifying AI safety risks, designing methodologies, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the secure and ethical development of AI technologies.
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Responsibilities
Identifying patterns of AI safety risk as well as best practices from a broad spectrum of technical and other sources and distilling those down to their essential pieces
Transforming those essential pieces into content that can be communicated to a range of partner teams and audiences so that they understand the need for what needs to be addressed (for patterns that require mitigation) or how to incorporate into their work (for best practices)
Designing methodologies for teams to build safely and effectively, with a clear eye towards those being directly useful and applicable by real teams
Partnering with AI creation platforms that target non-pro AI builders to incorporate methodologies that allow non-pro AI builders to understand the risks of what their building and empowering them to make informed risk tradeoffs
Ideating and prototyping tools that help both pro- and non-pro AI builders understand the risks of what they’re building throughout its development – from ideation to deployment
Working with our education and training team to develop content in a range of formats (presentations, interactive workshops, labs and whitepapers) to bring the knowledge of how to build AI safety and securely to a wide audience
Building collaborative relationships with other stakeholder teams working on Responsible AI to scale out AI Safety methodologies
Building collaborative relationships with other security teams to scale out AI security methodologies
Helping define new policies and procedures (or changes to existing ones) that ensure that customers can have justified trust in Microsoft’s AI services
Embodying our Culture and Values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
Candidates must be able 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
5+ years product experience in any of the safety disciplines in computer science (abuse, security, privacy, etc)
5+ years experience in assessing systems for practical security, privacy, or safety flaws and helping teams mitigate identified risks
3+ years experience with a socio-technical safety space (e.g. online safety, privacy)
2+ years experience using AI to build tools and/or agents AND 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
Company
Microsoft
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