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Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft · Redmond, WA, US; Mountain View, CA, US · On-site

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Identify emerging fraud tactics, adversary infrastructure, and evasion patterns across monetization flows and LLM-native systems through threat modeling, behavioral, graph-based, temporal, and cross-surface big data analysis. Assess high-risk assumptions and attack paths by forming explicit threat hypotheses, identifying observable signals, and validating risk through structured modeling, targeted experiments, and quantitative measurement.

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Identify emerging fraud tactics, adversary infrastructure, and evasion patterns across monetization flows and LLM-native systems through threat modeling, behavioral, graph-based, temporal, and cross-surface big data analysis. Assess high-risk assumptions and attack paths by forming explicit threat hypotheses, identifying observable signals, and validating risk through structured modeling, targeted experiments, and quantitative measurement. Design safe adversarial simulations that expose blind spots, then convert the results into test harnesses, monitored indicators, and reproducible regression scenarios for sister defense teams. Establish authoritative ground truth by correlating evidence across accounts, traffic, transactions, providers, devices, and infrastructure; reconstruct attack chains and document their provenance, confidence, scale, and economic exposure. Develop shared investigation infrastructure, agent-assisted services, and reusable libraries for telemetry analysis, entity resolution, attack-sequence reconstruction, and reproducible case analysis and convert into actionable insights. When material incidents occur, lead end-to-end reconstruction, document actionable...

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