Security Researcher

Overview

In this role you join the Microsoft Security Response Centre to advance vulnerability research and mitigation for Microsoft products and services. You’ll analyze sources from global researchers, reverse engineer exploits, and develop scalable tooling to accelerate security workflows. The work helps shape security updates and improve customer safety, alongside a collaborative team focused on cutting-edge security challenges. This is a mission-driven opportunity to influence real-world defense at scale.

Responsibilities

• Analyse critical security vulnerabilities reported by researchers and guide remediation
• Detect, reverse engineer and patch live exploits reported to MSRC
• Use AI tooling to find and analyze vulnerabilities at scale
• Develop new tools and techniques to improve vulnerability analysis workflows
• Innovate in security mitigations to strengthen product resilience
• Gain insights from bug trends to inform research and broader security strategy
• Collaborate with experts across Microsoft and grow in a supportive team

Key requirements

• Experience or background in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, cyber security, or related fields
• Ability to read, understand and debug C and/or C++ code
• Proficiency in developing tools and automation to identify or verify security issues and scale analysis workflows using AI and traditional methods
• Knowledge of software security vulnerabilities, exploitation methods, and prevention strategies
• Experience in security research on Windows/Linux systems

• Collaborative
• Curiosity-driven
• Analytical thinking
• C/C++ debugging
• Security vulnerability analysis and mitigation
• Tooling and automation for security testing

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