About the Role

Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing AI-driven security solutions for Microsoft. Responsibilities include building software systems for autonomous defense, collaborating with researchers, and implementing cutting-edge AI technologies to protect Microsoft and its customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as enablers to applied scientists and security researchers by creating software systems, infrastructure, services, and data pipelines using cloud technologies.
• Collaborate with researchers on the design, development, execution, and implementation of software projects that serve Microsoft Defenders.
• Research AI technologies to develop cutting-edge AI based solutions for Microsoft Defenders.
• Research and develop an understanding of tools, technologies, and methods being used in the community that can be utilized to improve product quality, performance, or efficiency.
• Incorporate state-of-the-art research or previously tested solutions occurring at Microsoft and academia and tune it to solve complex security challenges.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating Azure cloud services.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience driving research incubations to Production to drive real world impact.
• 2+ years of experience building customer solutions or open-source projects using ML/generative AI and/or multi-agent frameworks such as AutoGen, LangChain, LangGraph, crewAI, or equivalent.

Nice to Have:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with training and fine-tuning of transformer-based models, information retrieval or reinforcement learning
• Experience in safety and ethical aspects of AI.

Benefits & Perks

• Industry leading healthcare