Full-time

Principal Applied Scientist

Posted by Microsoft Corporation • Bangalore, India, India

📍 Bangalore, India 🕒 February 28, 2026

About the Role

**Overview**

Join a team that’s redefining modern security research with **AI-first, agentic systems** —moving beyond manual, expert-only workflows to **scalable, automation-driven threat discovery** . You’ll work at the intersection of **security research, applied ML, and agentic orchestration** to build end-to-end investigation capabilities that automate analysis of attacker techniques and accelerate researcher velocity and consistency.

Your work will help power **AI-driven campaign discovery** , surfacing emerging attack patterns at scale and enabling proactive threat monitoring that continuously hunts for new attack classes—especially across **Linux and macOS** , where reducing blind spots is a key focus.

You’ll also collaborate across engineering and research partners on data-driven programs that turn telemetry into action—such as pipelines that identify active customer evaluations early and help predict security performance, enabling faster priori...

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