Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Join the vanguard of cybersecurity innovation with the Microsoft Security AI Research team. Our mission is to safeguard Microsoft and our customers by pioneering applied AI solutions. We foster a culture of ambition and science together with curiosity and humility that celebrates growth mindset, and operational excellence. At the heart of defending Microsoft's intricate ecosystem, we offer a rare chance to design and assess autonomous defenses powered by cutting-edge generative AI capabilities. We leverage Microsoft's vast defensive knowledge, including insights from teams like MSTIC, to construct a unique knowledge graph that elucidates the interplay between risk, investigation, and response. Our rich data, amassed across Microsoft's digital landscape and coupled with Microsoft AI, lays the foundation for groundbreaking defense innovations. We are on the lookout for a Principal Applied Scientist to spearhead the research and development of functional autonomous agents for security scenarios. This role demands deep technical innovation and collaboration across Microsoft, academia, and industry to forge novel methods, tools, and frameworks that showcase autonomous capabilities. Candidates are encouraged to publish their work in top-tier conferences, advancing state of the art within the scientific community. 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.

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.