Senior Software Engineer - Offensive Tooling and Mitigations

Redmond, WA, United States

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.

Do you have a cybersecurity background or Responsible AI background, and interested in building tooling? Microsoft’s AI Red Team is where we emulate real-world attacks against Microsoft’s big bet AI systems to keep it secure. We also proactively look for Responsible AI (RAI) failures such as if the system is prone to being biased, generating hallucinated content and very broadly, harmful content.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to scale our AI Red Team operations via tooling for security and RAI. Our scope is to identify risk in every high risk AI project in Microsoft portfolio including the entire Microsoft’s AI portfolio including Bing Copilot, Security Copilot, Github Copilot, Office Copilot and Windows Copilot. You will be part of the AI Red Team – Tooling group to build automation tooling and accelerate our probing of new threats to AI systems. You will work with an interdisciplinary group of security red teamers, adversarial ML researchers and software developers – all committed to the mission of proactively finding failures in Microsoft’s big bet AI systems.

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. 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.

Responsibilities

Engages in discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.

Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects.

Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact.

Produces extensible and maintainable code. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.

Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Ability 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with building tools for red teams or more broadly, cybersecurity field

Familiarity with Responsible AI practices

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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