Principal Product Manager, AI Investigations & Integrity CoreAI

Are you an investigator who uses data to understand how AI systems are misusedand turn investigative findings into platform safeguards If so you may be a strong fit for this nontraditional Product Manager role focused on hands-on investigation and applied data science.

You will investigate misuse across models applications and agentic workflows including Azure AI Foundry and partner across engineering research security and integrity to turn findings into safeguards that reduce risk without blocking legitimate use.

• Investigate AI misuse and adversarial behavior across enterprise AI services including prompt injection jailbreaks adversarial distillation and coordinated abuse from initial signal through a defensible assessment of behavior impact risk and attribution.

• Use Python and SQL Kusto or comparable tools to analyze complex model application and agent telemetry reconstruct activity connect signals across datasets and uncover patterns missed by isolated events or aggregate metrics.

• Document evidence methods findings limitations and confidence so others can reproduce the analysis and make informed mitigation decisions.

• Evaluate and improve detection quality across coverage false positives missed abuse and customer impact. Investigate failures with engineering and research partners and apply lessons from post-deployment monitoring.

• Turn investigation findings into detection requirements mitigation priorities and operational improvements. Balance risk reduction feasibility and impact on legitimate users while partnering to ship protections and measure their effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree AND 8 years of experience in product/program management AI investigations applied data science trust and safety security research intelligence analysis focused on technical threats national security technical investigations or related technical disciplines OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience using applied data science or related technical skills to investigate AI misuse adversarial behavior AI safety or security incidents or closely related technology abuse.
• Relevant intelligence analysis or national security technical investigations may qualify when they involve complex data adversarial behavior and emerging technical threats.
• Experience assessing incomplete or conflicting evidence testing competing hypotheses coordinating investigations communicating findings and confidence and distinguishing misuse from legitimate use.
• Applied data science experience using Python and SQL Kusto or comparable tools to analyze complex telemetry and datasets.
• Experience translating investigations and analysis into shipped protections or operational improvements with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to turn evidence into actionable requirements and priorities and assess whether resulting changes improve outcomes.
• Strong command of AI and AI-assisted development tools including command-line interfaces (CLIs).
• You live and breathe AI and AI safety and have a strong guiding principle of making it easier for our customers to make AI useful and harder to abuse AI.
• Experience investigating frontier AI or agentic systems including attacks across model application tool or data boundaries and understanding how deployment context affects behavior and safeguard effectiveness.
• Experience investigating misuse involving enterprise AI applications data and hyperscale inference platforms.
• Experience building reproducible investigative workflows evaluation datasets or analytical tools that improve investigation quality and efficiency while guiding peers through difficult technical questions and contributing hands-on analysis.
• Experience with AI security testing red teaming post-deployment safety monitoring or incident response including measuring detection performance and validating mitigations against evolving adversarial behavior.
• Experience with content authenticity provenance enterprise data protection or governance in complex systems and translating investigative findings into product and operational decisions across organizational boundaries.

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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