Security, privacy, and cryptography
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Research Intern – Office of the Chief Scientific Officer
The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer works with senior leadership at Microsoft on strategy and opportunities at the frontiers of science, engineering, and responsible artificial intelligence (AI). The office collaborates closely with teams across…
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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.
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Research Intern – Security, Privacy and AI
This Research Internship will include (1) conducting threat modeling for Large Language Model (LLM)‑enabled agentic designs and identifying practical mitigations for Windows OS; (2) developing or refining formal security frameworks that support scalable designs and…
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Principal Security Engineer
Microsoft Research is building new tools to automate the search for unknown malicious software. We are the growing, evolving team behind Microsoft’s Project Ire, Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux (AVML), OneFuzz, Project Freta, and other…
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Publicly-verifiable elections
Microsoft’s free, open-source ElectionGuard tools enable voters to verify their votes were accurately counted without compromising privacy or trusting election equipment or personnel. New research eliminates the need for cryptographic keys, making the process far…
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Senior Research Software Engineer – Security & Cryptography
The Security Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond is pushing the boundary of what is possible with the fascinating primitive of zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. You’ll work alongside experts who are shaping the future of secure…
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Senior Researcher – Zero Knowledge Proof – Microsoft Research
The Security Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond is pushing the boundary of what is possible with the fascinating primitive of zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. You’ll work alongside experts who are shaping the future of secure…
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Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity
New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL.
