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.

We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to join our team. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact on protecting people and businesses, this is the team for you. Security is a top priority for our customers in a world filled with digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity.

The Microsoft Security Social Engineering Research Team is dedicated to defending Microsoft's customers against threats across all messaging and web platforms through applied AI innovation. Our culture fosters a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best every day. As attackers' methods evolve, our solutions adapt and anticipate. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate and detect threats in real-time across different platforms, technologies, and AI capabilities. Working with data at scale, utilizing emergent technologies, and being empowered by Microsoft's unique set of threat intelligence is the perfect challenge for any Principal Applied Scientist.

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.

As a Principal Applied Scientist focused on protecting Microsoft customers from social engineering threat vectors, you will be responsible for:

• Engage with stakeholders across our team and beyond to identify the most critical challenges worth solving

• Developing and supporting production AI models and heuristics to detect social engineering attacks

• Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation or engage in incident response as needed

• Embody our culture and values