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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 Response Center (MSRC) is looking for a Security Assurance Engineer to join our AI Safety & Security team. In this role, you will build and lead Microsoft’s end-to-end response process for AI-related security vulnerabilities and safety harms reported to MSRC. This is part program management, part security engineer, and always an advocate for customers and the company. You will expand on your curiosity to understand rapidly evolving billion-dollar services to work across the company and help protect customers, Microsoft, and communities from threats to security, safety, and privacy. Are you passionate about the safety and security of AI and how that intersects with our lives? If all this sounds interesting to you, then you should talk to us! The ideal candidate will have a strong technical security foundation in Artificial Intelligence or Digital Safety in addition to experience driving operational excellence. This position requires an individual who can demonstrate being technically curious, data-focused and customer-obsessed.
This role has anticipated exposure to illegal, offensive, sensitive, or mature materials on a regular basis, of various mediums inclusive of but not limited to text, audio, video, or images.
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.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior knowledge or experience collaborating with the security vulnerability research community.
• Prior knowledge or experience investigating security vulnerabilities and exploits.
• Professional security vulnerability case management, triage, and communication or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
• In-depth knowledge or strong demonstrated capacity to learn product and service security concepts.
• Ability to distill and explain complex technical and security concepts to different types of audiences.
  Security Assurance IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $81,900 - $160,200 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 $105,600 - $174,600 per year.
  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 4, 2025.
  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 is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to Microsoft’s AI Security and Safety response process in partnership with stakeholders across the company.
• Analyze security & safety issues to determine their root cause, harm category and impact. This includes setting up complex environments and assisting with recommended mitigations.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to represent Microsoft with external individuals and organizations reporting AI security vulnerabilities and safety issues.
• Develop, monitor, and analyze key performance data to identify and recommend process improvements and automation.
• Exercise and grow subject matter expertise in AI safety and security and security operation processes.
• Demonstrates a strong technical curiosity and passion for technology and artificial intelligence, continuously seeking to learn and apply new AI technologies and methodologies.

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