Sr Researcher -- Security and AI
Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Data Science · Machine Learning · Cybersecurity
In short
Microsoft Research India is looking for a Sr Researcher to focus on the intersection of security and AI, researching both securing AI systems and using AI to advance security. The role involves long-term research with opportunities for real-world impact, requiring a strong research track record and collaborative spirit.
Responsibilities
- Lead research at the intersection of security and AI, spanning both securing AI systems and applying AI to security problems.
- Develop new techniques to protect sensitive and proprietary data in AI systems and pipelines.
- Investigate the security of AI agents and autonomous systems and develop principled defenses.
- Explore how AI can help address security problems, including discovering vulnerabilities and attack paths.
- Investigate new attacks enabled or amplified by advances in AI and develop robust defenses.
- Design rigorous threat models, benchmarks, evaluations, and experimental methodologies for emerging AI security problems.
- Form hypotheses, build prototypes, design experiments, and evaluate new security mechanisms.
- Pursue long-term research while identifying opportunities to translate promising ideas into practical security mechanisms.
- Publish at top-tier security, systems, cryptography, and machine learning venues.
- Collaborate with research and product teams across Microsoft.
- Mentor interns and entry level researchers.
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of software engineering or research experience.
- Strong background in one or more areas of computer security, privacy, cryptography, computer systems, or machine learning.
- Strong research track record in security, cryptography, systems, machine learning, or a closely related area.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research and communicate results through publications, prototypes, open-source artifacts, or other impactful outcomes.
- Ability to identify and formulate important research problems, develop novel technical approaches, and evaluate them rigorously.
- Ability to work effectively across disciplinary boundaries and collaborate with diverse research and engineering teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Research experience in AI security, security of LLMs, or security of agentic systems.
- Experience with security and privacy techniques for AI training, post-training, inference, or data pipelines.
- Experience in areas such as systems security, applied cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, confidential computing, access control, or secure machine learning.
- Experience studying adversarial behavior, software vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, or security of large-scale systems.
- Experience applying LLMs or other AI techniques to security problems such as vulnerability discovery, security analysis, attack detection, or defense generation.
- Experience building and evaluating large-scale security or AI systems.
- Experience designing threat models, security benchmarks, adversarial evaluations, or red-team methodologies for emerging systems.
- Experience working across the research-to-production boundary and translating research ideas into real-world systems.
Benefits
- Opportunities to translate research advances into systems deployed at Microsoft scale.
- Work with researchers and engineers across MSR India, Microsoft Research worldwide, and Microsoft product groups.
- Enable your work to have impact both in the research community and on systems used by millions of users.
Skills
AIMachine LearningSecurityPrivacyCryptographyComputer SystemsLLMs
#AI#Machine Learning#Security#Privacy#Cryptography#Computer Systems#LLMs#Agentic Systems
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Bengaluru, India
Qualification
Doctoral
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