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Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft

Department: Applied Sciences

Compensation

$142,800 – $274,800/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, Washington · Mountain View, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Applied Scientist for its Online Forensics team within the Microsoft AI Experiences organization. The role focuses on protecting monetization and advertising flows and LLM-native systems by identifying fraud tactics, adversary infrastructure, and evasion patterns; developing threat hypotheses, adversarial simulations, test harnesses, and investigation platforms; establishing authoritative ground truth; and leading incident reconstruction. The position requires a relevant bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree plus 3–6 years of related experience, security screening, and the ability to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days per week.

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