# Senior Security Researcher - Red Team

OverviewMicrosoft Security is seeking agent and systems red teamers to join a new red team spanning agent security, offensive security, cloud identity, attack automation and adversarial AI. You will conduct hands-on red teaming of agentic systems and AI-enabled security products; design realistic attack chains across models, tools, identities, permissions and isolation boundaries; and turn critical findings into durable improvements such as regression evaluations, automated attack suites, stronger controls and safer product designs. We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher - Red Team to join the team! These are individual-contributor roles for security researchers and engineers who can move between exploitation, systems analysis and AI-specific attack techniques. Success requires depth in offensive security or agent security, fluency across cloud and AI systems, and the judgment to produce reproducible evidence that engineering, product, security and independent review teams can act on. 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 colla

- **Id**: 3764735
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-security-researcher-red-team>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T21:16:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T15:05:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6284
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Penetration Testing, Console Games, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 424
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.599
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:32:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.628
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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