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Senior Security Researcher

Microsoft· Security Research
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Security Researcher in Microsoft Security's FORGE Lab (Frontier Offensive Research & Generative Exploitation) focusing on offensive security research, autonomous security engineering, and AI-driven vulnerability discovery and remediation workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct cutting-edge security research to discover, validate, and analyze vulnerabilities across Microsoft products, cloud services, and strategic open-source ecosystems.
  • Design and develop scalable automation, AI-driven systems, and research tooling that accelerate vulnerability discovery, triage, and remediation workflows.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams to drive vulnerability mitigation, improve security posture, and reduce customer risk.
  • Lead or contribute to offensive security assessments that identify emerging threat patterns, novel attack techniques, and systemic security weaknesses.
  • Publish high-quality technical findings, influence in open source projects or large-scale software systems.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field OR Master's Degree 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 Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Vulnerability researchOffensive security research
Nice to have:Exploit developmentReverse engineeringAI-driven security tooling
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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