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Microsoft is hiring a Security Researcher for its Applied Threat Intelligence team to use AI to track threat actors, analyze attacker tradecraft, translate technical findings into guidance, build threat-intelligence pipelines, and represent Microsoft in customer and industry briefings. The role requires a relevant advanced or bachelor's degree plus 3–6 years of experience in software development, large-scale computing, threat analysis, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, or anomaly detection, with additional experience in threat intelligence, attribution, reporting, Microsoft Sentinel or Defender XDR, adversary analysis, and programming preferred. The position offers a typical U.S. base pay range of USD $102,100–$202,200 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

Required Skills

AI threat analysis
Threat actor tracking
Threat intelligence pipelines
Microsoft Sentinel
Defender XDR
Threat attribution
Threat reporting
Python scripting

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Minimum Education: Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or a related field, with 3–6 years of relevant experience depending on the degree level; equivalent experience is also accepted.
Required Previous Experiences: 3+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
4+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
6+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
Preferred Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or a closely related security discipline.
Experience creating threat groups and communicating attribution assessments.
Experience producing finished threat intelligence reports for technical and executive audiences.
Experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR or comparable SIEM/XDR platforms.
Understanding of adversary tradecraft, the cyber kill chain, MITRE ATT&CK, the Diamond Model, and structured analytic techniques.
Written and verbal communication skills with a portfolio of public or customer-facing intelligence writing.
Experience tracking and defending against financially motivated threat actors.
Experience with endpoint, cloud, network, and identity-based attacks and datasets.
Experience with AI tools and large language models for information security applications and pipelines.
Comprehensive operating system security and internals knowledge.
Understanding of network protocols and analytical experience with network infrastructure data and telemetry.
Reverse-engineering and static and behavioral binary analysis experience.
Functional understanding of common threat analysis models.
Programming or scripting background in Python, PowerShell, C#, C++, or similar languages.

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