Member of Technical Staff - Technical Program Manager · Microsoft

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:10:54 GMT
Engineering

Microsoft · New York · $139,900 - $274,800 per year · hybrid

Copilot is evolving into an agentic system that can plan, reason, and execute actions across tools, data, and services. Securing such a system cannot rely on static controls, offline review, or policy-only enforcement. It requires runtime defenses that adapt to intent, behavior, and context as the system operates.

Copilot Security and Privacy is responsible for building these defenses directly into Copilot. Our work focuses on new security primitives for agentic AI, including runtime misuse detection, adaptive guardrails, containment and isolation mechanisms, and feedback-driven control systems informed by offensive security research.

We are hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to own the end-to-end delivery of these capabilities. This is a deeply technical execution role for someone who can operate at the boundary of security engineering, AI research, and platform systems,turning ambiguous threat models into shippable, operable defenses deployed in a globally scaled AI product.

This role is not about process, governance, or coordination. The TPM is accountable for making complex systems land in production, under real-world adversarial pressure. Most security roles protect systems after they exist. This role helps define how agentic AI systems defend themselves while they operate.

You will shape how Copilot detects misuse, enforces boundaries, and recovers safely in real time,working directly on the mechanisms that make autonomy deployable at global scale. The impact is immediate, technical, and measurable in production behavior.

If you want to operate where AI systems, security engineering, and execution reality intersect, this role offers that surface area,without turning you into a policy owner or process layer.

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 collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.