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Senior Research Engineer - AI Security

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, deploy, and operate production-scale ML systems to protect Copilot experiences from threats like prompt injections and adversarial inputs.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer - AI Security

Builds

Adaptive detection and policy models, evaluation frameworks, and secure orchestration frameworks for agent delegation and tool calling.

Domain

AI Security / Large Language Model Safety

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML fundamentals (classification, anomaly detection, representation learning), end-to-end ML pipeline design, adversarial testing, telemetry/observability pipelines, agentic AI risk understanding, distributed systems, secure system design

Preferred skills

Experience with C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python, AI safety/trust/security adjacent problems, clear communication of complex concepts

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Develop adaptive detection models learning from evolving attacker behavior, build evaluation frameworks for adversarial testing and red-teaming, partner with security teams to integrate ML defenses, monitor telemetry to reduce false positives/negatives, conduct rigorous experimentation to quantify security effectiveness

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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