About the Role

Senior Security Researcher role at Microsoft focusing on threat detection and prevention. Responsibilities include researching emerging attack vectors, analyzing security gaps, and developing detection solutions. The role involves collaboration across teams and guiding AI-based security enhancements.

Key Responsibilities

• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques
• Analyze detection and prevention gaps and understand root cause
• Design and develop detection, prevention and disruption solutions to thwart advanced attacks
• Synthesize in-field telemetry to judge the state of threat coverage and share insights
• Collaborate across teams to address systemic security issues

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
• 3+ years in reverse engineering (debuggers, disassemblers, file formats)
• 3+ years experience with attacker kill chain analysis (MITRE ATT&CK and enterprise threat modeling)
• 3+ years of experience in scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) and proficiency in at least one compiled language (e.g. C, C++, C#, Go, Rust)

Nice to Have:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber-security, and/or anomaly detection
• 3+ years working with OS internals (Windows and Linux preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in red-team/purple-team or blue-team operations across hybrid environments
• 3+ years authoring detection logic and security telemetry pipelines
• 3+ years with regex, Kusto, and/or SQL for log analysis
• Experience in research publication and security tooling development
• Working knowledge of AI workflows or generative AI/LLM frameworks
• Experience in vulnerability analysis and exploit development

Benefits & Perks

• Industry leading healthcare