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Senior Security Research Engineer

Microsoft· Security Research
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Redmond, WA, Reston, VA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Security Research Engineer to design and build enterprise environments spanning Azure, AWS, GCP, on-premises infrastructure, and third-party technologies. Role focuses on creating reproducible, resettable environments to enable repeated AI training/evaluation and secure engineering platforms, partnering with security researchers and AI engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Build realistic enterprises.
  • Connect applications, networks, identities, and third-party services across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises systems, including realistic user activity and security telemetry.
  • Make environments repeatable.
  • Build reusable infrastructure, images, and self-service automation to provision, validate, reset, and retire complete environments.
  • Enable AI training and evaluation.
  • Deliver interfaces for agent actions, observations, and evidence collection so teams can reliably compare model, agent, and harness changes.
  • Engineer for safe scale.
  • Support concurrent experiments with strong isolation, synthetic data, health checks, recovery, and cost controls.
  • Own capabilities end to end.
  • Partner with security researchers and AI engineers to ship dependable systems, resolve cross-stack challenges, and mentor engineers.

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:Software development lifecycleLarge-scale computingThreat analysis or modelingCybersecurityVulnerability researchAnomaly detection
Nice to have:Automation
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