Microsoft are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Safety - MAI Super Intelligence Team at their Mountain View office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI technology. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI market.

About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Safety, you will work to develop and implement cutting-edge safety methodologies for post-training multimodal large language models to be served to millions of users through Copilot every day. We work on the bleeding edge and leverage the most powerful pretrained models and algorithms, making it critical that we ensure our AI systems behave safely and align with organizational values.

Accountabilities

• Leverage expertise in multimodal safety to uncover potential risks and develop novel mitigation strategies, including alignment techniques and robustness improvements for multimodal large language models.
• Create and implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks and red-teaming methodologies to assess model safety across diverse scenarios, edge cases, and potential failure modes.

The Candidate we're looking for

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

Technical skills:

• Proven expertise in multimodal LLM safety with experience in diffusion models and generative image/video/audio.

Personal attributes:

• Track record building evaluation frameworks, automated red-teaming, and reusable guardrail systems for safety at scale.

Benefits

• Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year.
• Starting January 26, 2026, MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S., country-specific) of that location.

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