New 
Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. Are you a software engineer passionate about Artificial Intelligence and excited about technologies like Large Language Models (LLM) and reinforcement learning? Do you want to develop automation that red teams can use to exploit security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's largest AI systems, impacting millions of users? We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Microsoft's Python Risk Identification Tool (PyRIT) Team where you'll create software that emulates real-world attacks against our AI products. As part of the Microsoft AI Red Team-an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers, and software developers-you'll help identify risks in Microsoft's most impactful AI investments. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesSupports the AI Red Team by building infrastructure in Azure and elsewhereBuilds and fosters the open source community around PyRITResearches new AI attacks and integrates them into PyRIT Adheres to and drives modern software engineering practices Drives system design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code and design reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions Develops and applies "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. Exposes testability and test coverage issues, improves test coverage for services, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Gains a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborates across teams to create cohesive end-to-end experiences for our users Defines and focuses on data-driven approaches to identify customer/partner needs Embody our culture and values | |