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Within MSRC, our AI Vulnerabilities and Mitigations team analyzes all reported security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s AI and agentic systems and develops new mitigations through deep research.\nSome of our team’s recent research and collaborations include:\nThe Nine Dimensions of Prompt Injection Attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04672\n\nSecuring AI Agents with Information-Flow Control (NeurIPS’26): https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23643\n\nVerifiableFL: Verifiable Claims for Federated Learning using Exclaves (SoCC’26): https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10537\n\nLLMail-Inject: A Dataset from a Realistic Adaptive Prompt Injection Challenge (EMNLP’26): https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09956\n\nOptimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy (ICLR’26) https://openreview.net/forum?id=g0aVCDY3gS\n\nImplicit Memory as a Hidden Channel in LLMs (SaTML’26): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08563\n\nHighlight & Summarize: RAG without the Jailbreaks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02872\n\nThe Hawthorne effect in reasoning models: Evaluating and steering test awareness (NeurIPS’25): https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14617\n\nTaskTracker: Catching LLM Task Drift with Activation Deltas (SaTML’25): https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00799\n\nWe are looking for research interns to work with us on projects such as: identifying new classes of vulnerabilities in AI or agentic AI systems; detecting vulnerabilities in real systems; automating security vulnerability response using agents; and developing new mitigations that can be deployed at scale.\nOur team is uniquely placed to solve real-world security and privacy challenges, through cutting-edge scientific research, informed by vulnerability data from production systems.\nContract Length: 12 weeks \nLocation: Cambridge, UK \nResponsibilities\nConduct cutting-edge researchin AI security and privacy by proposing, exploring, and evaluating new ideas.\nDevelop and implement prototypesto validate concepts and demonstrate real-world applicability.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teamsto integrate security and privacy solutions into products and services.\nPublish findings and present insightsto internal stakeholders and external conferences to advance industry knowledge.\nQualifications\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications:\nStudents enrolled in a PhD program or outstanding undergraduate/master’s students with research experience (e.g., published research papers).\nPreferred/Additional Qualifications:\nOne or more papers at top security conferences (e.g., USENIX, CCS, S&P, NDSS) or papers focusing on security, safety, or privacy at top machine learning conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).\nThe base pay for this internship is £ 4,853.00 per month. 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