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Senior Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement AI threat detection systems to identify and mitigate adversarial attacks like prompt injection, memory poisoning, and data exfiltration within Copilot security infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer specializing in AI safety and threat detection

Builds

Security services, classifiers, evaluation frameworks, telemetry pipelines, and risk assessment systems for Copilot

Domain

AI Security / Cloud Infrastructure / Threat Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

AI threat modeling, adversarial attack mitigation, distributed system design, cloud-native service architecture, security incident response, technical strategy planning, cross-team influence, root cause analysis, production software system operations

Preferred skills

Large language model security, agentic workflow defense, red teaming, security research contributions, open-source security tooling

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of AI threat detection systems; Drive development of security services and evaluation frameworks; Conduct threat modeling and identify security gaps; Partner with product teams to translate security requirements into scalable solutions; Investigate emerging attack techniques and develop durable defenses; Lead design reviews and mentor engineers; Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning; Participate in on-call rotations and lead security incident investigations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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