Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Microsoft Security AI Research team develops advanced AI-driven security solutions to protect Microsoft and its customers. Our team combines expertise in large-scale AI, knowledge graphs, and generative models to address evolving security challenges across Microsoft’s complex digital environment. Defending Microsoft’s complex environment provides a unique opportunity to build and evaluate autonomous defense and offense through emerging generative AI capabilities. By leveraging rich security telemetry and operational insights from Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center and Red Team, you will have access to a one-of-a-kind environment for innovation at scale. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will focus on applying advanced graph algorithms and large language models (LLMs) to automate and enhance red-teaming operations. Deep expertise in both graph theory/graph machine learning and large language models is essential for this role. You will be responsible for designing and building AI systems that combine knowledge graphs and LLMs for adversarial simulation, attack path discovery, and threat modeling in a production environment. While cybersecurity experience is preferred, it is not required.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.