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Microsoft
Redmond, WA; Mountain View, CA
Source: Microsoft careers · View original posting
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Overview
The Copilot Security Engineering team sits at the core of Microsoft's mission to deliver secure, trusted, and human-centered AI experiences across Microsoft's Copilot offerings. We build the systems that detect, evaluate, and defend against emerging AI threats, including prompt injection, memory poisoning, data exfiltration, adversarial inputs, and abuse of agentic workflows. Our goal is to establish industry-leading security protections that enable customers to confidently adopt AI at scale.
Our team combines security engineering, AI systems expertise, and threat research to identify emerging risks, develop novel defenses, and continuously measure the effectiveness of those protections in production environments. We work closely with product teams, Microsoft Research, and platform organizations to ensure security is built into every layer of the Copilot ecosystem.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about securing AI-powered systems and enjoys solving complex security challenges at large scale.
In this role, you will lead the design and development of AI threat detection and defense systems that protect Copilot experiences across Microsoft. You will drive solutions from threat identification through production deployment, partnering closely with engineers, security researchers, product teams, and platform organizations.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys operating at the intersection of security, AI, and large-scale distributed systems. You will help define how Microsoft detects, evaluates, and mitigates emerging AI attacks while building the security capabilities that enable Copilot experiences to operate safely and responsibly for millions of users worldwide.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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