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Company

Microsoft · 6 hours ago

Principal Researcher: AI Trust & Safety

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Discover and exploit GenAI vulnerabilities with respect to end-to-end capabilities in order to assess the safety of systems and lead communication of impact of vulnerabilities to partner stakeholders

Develop novel methodologies and techniques to scale and accelerate AI Red Teaming in collaboration with our research team, our tooling team, and leaders in the Microsoft AI Safety & Security ecosystem

Collaborate with teams to influence measurement and mitigations of these vulnerabilities in AI systems

Research new and emerging threats to inform the organization and craft solutions to operationalize testing within the AI Red Team function

Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations -Model and coach other red teamers on functional strategies for effective delivery, communication, and prioritization in fast moving environments.

Embody our Culture and Values

Qualification

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Safety experienceAI Red TeamingAdversarial Machine LearningPython programmingStatisticsPredictive analyticsResearch experienceNational security (CBRN)Multilingual proficiencyResponsible AIOnline safetySociologyPsychologyChemistryBiologyLinguistics

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)

OR equivalent experience.

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

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

Preferred

Experience in Trust and Safety area or policy area, especially working with human-generated or AI-generated harmful materials across multiple media types and creating objective recommendations, grounded and supported by research and data.

Experience in national security, specifically CBRN

Preferred multilingual proficiency, especially in languages used in Microsoft userbase in Europe, EMEA and APAC region

Prior experience in red teaming events such as GRT at Defcon AI Village or other LLM CTFs

While extensive coding experience is not necessary, candidate should be comfortable with basic/intermediate Python programming

1+ years' experience in a field related to Responsible AI including but not limited to ethics, chemistry, biology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, medicine, socio-technical safety space, online safety, privacy

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

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