New 
Research Intern - AI Security
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 01, 2025 | |
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OverviewResearch Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.Security represents the most critical priority 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, streamlined 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. Do you have research experience in AI Security or Safety? Do you want to find failures in Microsoft's big bet AI systems impacting millions of users? Do you want to intern with a team dedicated to securing (a rising number of) agentic AI systems by finding and fixing their vulnerabilities? This exciting opportunity to join the Applied Research arm of Microsoft Security AI Research (MSECAIR) and work alongside security experts and researchers to push the boundaries of AI Red Teaming on agentic AI systems. This Research Internship will be a collaboration between Microsoft's AI Red Team, Microsoft Research and Azure Research. We are looking for an early-career Research Intern with experience in systems security, AI safety, AI security, or AI red-teaming to help make Microsoft's AI products safer and help our customers expand with our AI systems. We are an interdisciplinary group of red teamers, AI security researchers, Responsible AI experts, and software developers with the mission of proactively finding failures in AI systems. Your work has the potential to impact the safety and security of agentic systems across Microsoft's AI portfolio. More about our approach to AI Red Teaming: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/07/microsoft-ai-red-team-building-future-of-safer-ai/.
ResponsibilitiesResearch Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Research Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to exciting research and development strides. During the 12-week internship, Research Interns are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community. Research internships are available in all areas of research, and are offered year-round, though they typically begin in the summer. | |