Microsoft Senior Security Researcher 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

876333840

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

• Apply advanced ML/AI techniques including anomaly detection on large scale security datasets to build high efficacy detections to protect the Azure 1P infrastructure. -
• Lead hypothesis-driven threat research by designing AI-assisted detection authoring playbooks that correlate low fidelity events and generate detection logic.
• Design and execute experiments that transform managed security operations, define measurable success criteria, and scale proven approaches into production workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including security researchers, applied scientists and Software Engineers to translate research into actionable detections, automation, and investigation tools that enhance security posture for Azure infrastructure.
• Operationalize ML/AI models at scale by building robust data pipelines, implementing labeling strategies, and ensuring model monitoring for fairness, drift, and performance in live environments.
• Communicate research impact effectively through clear documentation, prototypes, and presentations.
• Stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape by tracking attacker tradecraft, validating new AI techniques, and converting insights into proactive detections and mitigations that reduce environment risk.

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