New 
Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 May 14, 2025 | |
|
OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.The MSTIC Intelligence Graph Research team is responsible for defending Microsoft Cloud and our customers through innovation in security graph research and abuse identification. Defending Microsoft Coud's complex environment provides a unique opportunity to research, build and evaluate autonomous graph powered defense through emerging generative AI capabilities. This dedicated team of security experts aims to provide real-time measurements of risks, discovery of emerging threats and empower response. We are seeking a highly skilled professional with the following qualifications:Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain an interconnected ontology of taxonomies tailored for use in a large graph database supporting security applications.Design and model nodes and edges to represent assets, vulnerabilities, networks, and activities for risk management and threat analysis.Leverage graph queries, data science techniques, and attacker methodologies to identify and demonstrate multi-domain attack paths and strengthen organizational defenses. | |