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 aim 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 every day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

As a Principal Applied AI Engineer in the AI Benchmarking team within Microsoft Security AI, you will play a critical role in shaping the performance of AI models and agentic systems across the entire range of Microsoft Security products and programs. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world threat protection, you will design, build, and optimize benchmarks to drive tomorrow’s AI systems. Your contributions will ensure that Microsoft Security remains at the forefront of AI-driven defense, providing robust, adaptive, and trustworthy protection across complex digital environments. In this role, precision, efficiency, and strategic thinking are paramount, as you help drive innovation in security technology while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and integrity.

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.