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Principal Security Research Manager
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Source: Microsoft careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $165,600 — $331,200 USD per year
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
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Overview
The MDASH team is advancing how organizations discover and resolve vulnerabilities in source code. MDASH uses a multi-agent, multi-model system to analyze code, validate whether potential vulnerabilities are real and reachable, and provide developers with concrete fixes and guidance for verifying that code is no longer vulnerable.
We are seeking a Principal Security Research Manager to lead the team responsible for the security research and evaluation that advance MDASH's vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation capabilities. This team shapes how MDASH finds vulnerabilities across programming languages, vulnerability classes, and codebase types; determines whether findings are valid and actionable; and improves the quality of generated fixes.
The team owns the eval-driven development and hill-climbing loop: identifying representative evaluation targets, curating trusted ground truth, analyzing failures, and turning those insights into measurable improvements in vulnerability discovery, validation, and fix quality. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in vulnerability research and application security with demonstrated success leading highly technical teams.