Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Security & Safety)

Microsoft’s Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced artificial intelligence (AI), cloud-enabled capabilities, and strategic technologies to help solve the world’s major challenges. At Microsoft Robotics within MDQ, we build and deploy technologies that enable people, robots, and AI agents to collaborate and achieve more. We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Security & Safety) at the Senior level, to define and implement security and safety frameworks for Microsoft’s robotics platform, ensuring that robots, AI models, and cloud-connected infrastructure operate safely, securely, and in compliance with applicable standards across all deployment contexts.

Design and implement end-to-end security and safety architectures for robotic systems, spanning the full hardware-software robot stack, including device-level security (secure boot, firmware integrity, encrypted communications), platform-level security (identity, access control, certificate management), and cloud-to-edge security for robot fleet management.

Develop and maintain safety analyses and threat models (FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA) specific to robotic systems operating in human-populated environments, identifying risks from cyber-attack vectors, AI behavior failures, hardware faults, and environmental uncertainties.

Define and enforce safety envelopes and runtime safety monitors for autonomous robot behaviors, including collision avoidance, force limiting, workspace boundaries, and graceful degradation under sensor or actuator failure conditions.

Analyze key security metrics, KPIs, and telemetry data to identify trends in security posture and safety incidents, implementing mitigation strategies and driving continuous improvement of the platform’s security and safety posture.

Design and scale solutions to address identified security control issues (network, identity, applications) and current threats specific to robotics deployments, anticipating and articulating risks to leadership.

Develop and implement incident response processes for robotics-specific security and safety events, including physical safety incidents, AI behavior anomalies, fleet compromise scenarios, and supply chain integrity concerns.

Collaborate with robotics engineers, AI researchers, and platform engineers to embed security and safety requirements into the software development lifecycle, including secure coding standards, security testing in CI/CD pipelines, and safety validation in simulation.

Contribute to the development and implementation of security policies and standards for robotic systems, aligning with industry frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, IEC 61508, ISO 13482, ISO 10218, RIA standards) and Microsoft’s security requirements.

Engage with regulatory bodies, industry standards organizations, and Microsoft internal AI safety and security communities (e.g., Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI), to stay current on evolving safety and security requirements for autonomous and AI-enabled physical systems.

Leverage automation and AI to improve effectiveness of security operations, including automated vulnerability scanning, anomaly detection in robot telemetry, and AI-assisted threat hunting across the robotics fleet.