Principal Applied Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 25, 2024 | |
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OverviewWe are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to join our team to innovate the best methods to approach interactive data in order to assess real time threats. You will be leveraging and building upon a broad set of research from Microsoft, academia, and industry to develop novel methods, tools, and frameworks for demonstrating defensive capabilities. You will collaborate with internal and external partners to apply your research to real-world scenarios and challenges. For those interested in making a meaningful impact in protecting real people and businesses, don't miss the opportunity to join this team. 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 Messaging and Web Security Research Team is responsible for defending Microsoft's customers against threats across ALL messaging and web platforms. We do this through applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation. 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. As the methods that attackers use evolves, our solutions adapt and anticipate. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate to detect threats in real time across new platforms and technologies through emerging generative AI capabilities. The opportunity to work with data at scale, utilizing emergent technologies, and further empowered by Microsoft's unique set of threat intelligence is the perfect challenge for any Principal Applied Scientist. 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.
ResponsibilitiesConduct cutting-edge research that builds towards transformative defensive security capabilities with demonstrated scientific rigor. Innovative principles and forward-looking concepts guided by research trends in academia, OSS and industry. Form strategic partnerships with thought leaders across the company, in the industry and across domains. Work with defenders, threat hunters, PMs, and engineers to apply this research in new foundational product features. Partner with engineering to best define the ML requirements for these new platforms to allow for responsible and frictionless ML ops Identify partnership opportunities to produce greater impact, innovative solutions, and the best-in-class protection that our customers require. OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |