Senior AI Engineer, Security AI
Microsoft Corporation · Redmond, WA
$119,800–$234,700from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This individual contributor role sits within Microsoft's Cloud Security team and focuses on building AI-powered systems to support security detection, investigation, and response at cloud scale. Day-to-day work involves designing and improving capabilities built on large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge graphs, as well as defining evaluation frameworks to measure quality and real-world impact. It suits engineers with hands-on experience building and assessing frontier AI systems, ideally applied to cybersecurity problems.
Senior level · 4+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,400 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,100–12,200
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The required qualifications gate on a Bachelor's degree in CS or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in one of several languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python); equivalent experience is also accepted, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors (no 'or equivalent' carve-out for the degree itself).
All AI/ML-specific skills (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, knowledge graphs, prompt engineering, embedding models, vector search, multi-agent architectures, AI safety) appear exclusively under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are therefore marked preferred.
The coding language requirement lists several interchangeable options; Python is used as the canonical name with the others captured as alternatives.
The posting covers a broad U.S. location; Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond/Seattle is used as the primary CBSA. A separate higher pay band is noted for the San Francisco Bay Area (USD $160,200–$261,000/yr) and New York City metro, but the base range quoted is the nationwide figure.
A Microsoft Cloud Background Check is required post-hire but is not a government security clearance gate; the clearance requirement is set to None.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Data Scientists (15-2051) because the primary deliverable is building and operationalizing AI-powered security systems (engineering/shipping code), not statistical modeling or research analysis — though the applied-science flavor makes 15-2051 a reasonable runner-up.
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