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Do you want to find responsible AI failures in Microsoft’s largest AI systems impacting millions of users? Join Microsoft’s AI Red Team where you'll emulate work alongside security experts to cause trust and safety failures in Microsoft’s big AI systems. We are looking for a Principal Researcher: AI Trust & Safety focused with tactical experience in trust, safety, or responsible AI for our team to help make AI security better and help our customers expand with our AI systems. Our team is an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, adversarial Machine Learning (ML) researchers, Safety & Responsible AI experts and software developers with the mission of proactively finding failures in Microsoft’s big bet AI systems. In this role, you will be an individual contributor, red teaming AI models and applications across Microsoft’s AI portfolio including Bing Copilot, Security Copilot, Github Copilot, Office Copilot and Windows Copilot. This work is sprint based, working with AI Safety and Product Development teams, to run operations that aim to find safety and security risks that inform internal key business decisions. As a Principal Researcher: AI Trust & Safety, you will have the latitude to define emerging threat areas for the company, responsible for operations delivery, communicating impact of findings to diverse internal stakeholders, and pushing cross-team efforts to improve operational effectiveness. This Principal Researcher: AI Trust & Safety role is also expected to bring insight into the AI Safety space and collaborate closely with our tooling and research teams to orchestrate innovation with the operations testing team. We are open to remote work. More about our approach to AI Red Teaming: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/07/microsoft-ai-red-team-building-future-of-safer-ai/.
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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.