Applied ML Engineer

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 Microsofts 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.

The Microsoft Social Engineering Threats Research team protects people and organizations from rapidly evolving threats across email collaboration and messaging platforms. We are looking for anApplied ML Engineerto help shape the next generation of AI-powered security develop and deploy cutting-edge AI systems that make tens of billions of real-time security decisions every day helping customers stay safe from phishing fraud scams and other forms of social engineering. Our team applies advances in artificial intelligence including language models multimodal systems and agent-based reasoning to solve challenging security problems at global scale. We believe in an AI-first approach: rapidly experimenting with new ideas rigorously measuring impact and iterating quickly to bring effective solutions into production. Our work sits at the intersection of research engineering and product development allowing us to transform emerging technologies into capabilities that directly improve customer protection. We foster a culture of curiosity collaboration and continuous learning. Team members are encouraged to explore new technologies challenge assumptions and work closely with world-class researchers engineers and product teams to deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you are evaluating the latest AI advances building production-scale detection systems or designing experiments that influence future product direction your contributions will have visible impact. This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their career to help shape the future of AI-powered cybersecurity while building solutions that protect millions of people every day.

Microsofts 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.

As an Applied ML Engineer you will:

• Work with Small Language Models (SLMs) agents and multimodal AI systems to develop evaluate and deploy detection capabilities that operate at Microsoft scale.
• Help transform research into production solutions that improve customer protection.
• Responsibilities include: Design develop and evaluate AI-driven detection capabilities using SLMs agents multimodal models and emerging machine learning technologies to identify evolving threats and abuse patterns. Partner with research engineering and product teams to translate new ideas into production-ready solutions that deliver measurable customer impact at scale.
• Own key aspects of the experimentation and evaluation process including defining success metrics designing studies analyzing results and making data-driven recommendations.
• Drive deep analysis of model behavior efficacy coverage and operational performance identifying opportunities to improve customer protection and system efficiency.
• Collaborate across teams to influence technical direction share learnings and contribute to a culture of innovation scientific rigor and continuous improvement.

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 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 $133800 - $219200 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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