Senior Software Engineer - AI

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.

Are you excited about building capabilities that help protect our customers from cybersecurity threats? Making security incident detection and investigation autonomous? Do you enjoy designing & building full-stack products using technologies ranging from backend services and APIs for optimized data retrieval and business logic, to LLM-based agentic workflows? Do you thrive in a collaborative and data-driven environment? Do you enjoy working with talented feature teams including software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and security researchers? If so, you'll love our collaborative, agile, and fun group with a startup mindset. 

We are part of the Defender Experts product unit (part of Microsoft’s Security division). Our mission is to help protect our customers with innovative AI-powered & full-stack capabilities, combined with human-powered intelligence. We are committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated capabilities to protect their digital assets.  Making our customers succeed with our solutions is what excites us every day! We are a diverse group with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, prior work & life experiences. We foster a strong culture of learning & a collaborative work environment.  

We are building multiple managed services/product offerings for Enterprise customers. Our products combine backend/cloud services, Big Data processing, and state-of-the-art Generative AI/LLMs to deliver scalable and intelligent solutions. With an intuitive and easy-to-use UX, we aim to delight both our customers and security researchers. Our products offer a big growth opportunity for our division. We work with partners across the Microsoft Security division (including the Security CoPilot team) to innovate in our products and services.  

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - AI to join the Defender Experts Organization. Key responsibilities include the following: 

• Design, implement and deploy AI-powered capabilities utilizing exploratory data analysis, model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation. 
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with data in production  
• Perform deep analysis of multi-faceted data such as natural language text, security logs, general application logs and others. 
• Leverage state of the art AI technologies like Transformers Neural Networks, Embeddings, Vector stores, LLMs, and Agentic Workflows to solve challenging security problems. 
• Help the team in all aspects of building AI features from inception to productization to monitoring in production.  
• Support, mentor, and help other engineers and data scientists.  
• Partner closely with Data Science, Product Management, and Security Research teams 

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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in AI systems both on the data science and engineering levels. 
• Experience building and shipping AI features for world-class production systems.  
• Knowledge of machine learning tools and libraries like PyTorch or TensorFlow or similar. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 5, 2024. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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