Microsoft Principal Researcher AI Trust & Safety 

United States, Washington 

626375010

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • 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:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Trust and Safety area or policy area, especially working with human-generated or AI-generated harmful materials across multiple media types and creating objective recommendations, grounded and supported by research and data.
• Experience in national security, specifically CBRN
• Preferred multilingual proficiency, especially in languages used in Microsoft userbase in Europe, EMEA and APAC region
• Prior experience in red teaming events such as GRT at Defcon AI Village or other LLM CTFs
• While extensive coding experience is not necessary, candidate should be comfortable with basic/intermediate Python programming
• 1+ years' experience in a field related to Responsible AI including but not limited to ethics, chemistry, biology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, medicine, socio-technical safety space, online safety, privacy

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 10, 2025.

• Discover and exploit GenAI vulnerabilities with respect to end-to-end capabilities in order to assess the safety of systems and lead communication of impact of vulnerabilities to partner stakeholders
• Develop novel methodologies and techniques to scale and accelerate AI Red Teaming in collaboration with our research team, our tooling team, and leaders in the Microsoft AI Safety & Security ecosystem
• Collaborate with teams to influence measurement and mitigations of these vulnerabilities in AI systems
• Research new and emerging threats to inform the organization and craft solutions to operationalize testing within the AI Red Team function
• Work alongside traditional offensive security engineers, adversarial ML experts, developers to land responsible AI operations -Model and coach other red teamers on functional strategies for effective delivery, communication, and prioritization in fast moving environments.
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