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.
Our AI Research team is responsible for building advanced AI innovation for the security business. This role is very crucial to ensure success of AI innovation we are building and entails end to end envisioning of how AI can help threat hunting and security research broadly and build AI agents to help the personas.
We are looking for individuals with "go get it done" approach to a problem where they show hard work, growth mindset, goal and outcome, oriented thinking and ship fast and learn fast execution style. The key to success in this role is velocity, agility and versatality
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.
Bring in deep understanding of what security research and threat hunting entails and how AI can help these domains
Identify opportunities where AI can help these personas
Building agentic AI (end to end development and not just POC, the idea is to ship and prove)
Evaluate and tune and continuously focus on improvement
Own and drive advanced security research for the org as a whole
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10+ years of experience in security research, detection engineering, threat lifecycle, cloud security in large-scale complex cloud environments, as well as disciplines related to managed services for SIEM platforms.
 - Proven ability to lead and execute advanced research on emerging cloud-based threats impacting both Microsoft and third-party security products across heterogeneous cloud environments.
 - Demonstrated expertise in developing and refining detection and response strategies leveraging major SIEM platforms, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Sentinel, to provide comprehensive threat coverage and response capabilities.
 - Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms—including, but not limited to, Azure—as well as a deep understanding of multi-cloud security challenges and solutions.
 - Strong practical experience identifying, analyzing, and mitigating real-world cyber threats in complex cloud environments.
 - Proven ability to work independently and deliver complete solutions.
 - Demonstrated capability to effectively articulate technical insights and influence multidisciplinary teams.
 
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