Security, privacy, & cryptography
Developing technologies that protect data, preserve privacy, and build trustworthy computing systems.
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Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar
Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security.
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Principal Applied Scientist – Ads Fraud Detection
As a Principal Applied Scientist on the Microsoft Ads Fraud Detection team, you will lead the most complex and ambiguous fraud challenges: designing new anomaly detection approaches to surface emerging attacks early, building robust cross-signal…
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Applied ML Engineer – Social Engineering Threats Research team
The Microsoft Social Engineering Threats Research team protects people and organizations from rapidly evolving threats across email, collaboration, and messaging platforms. We are looking for an Applied ML Engineer to help shape the next generation…
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Research Intern – Security Research Group, Microsoft Research Redmond
The Security Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond works on a variety of areas to ensure computer systems are secure and trustworthy. Its current work investigates systems that leverage general software/systems security, confidential computing, formal…
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Principal Applied Scientist – Microsoft AI Experiences
As a Principal Applied Scientist on the Online Forensics team, you will shape the scientific strategy for protecting Microsoft’s monetization network. You will assess threats in monetization and advertising flows and LLM-native systems, track adversary…