Doctorate In Cybersecurity Jobs in Kent, WA (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Microsoft is a leading technology company focused on security solutions. They are seeking a Senior Security Researcher to design and execute adversary simulations, develop offensive tooling, and leverage threat intelligence to enhance security measures against real-world cyber threats.
Responsibilities:
• Design and execute adversary simulations that emulate real-world threat actors across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Develop and modify offensive tooling, including custom payloads, loaders, and command-and-control (C2) frameworks.
• Conduct malware development and tradecraft research to replicate modern attacker techniques such as evasion, persistence, and lateral movement.
• Leverage threat intelligence to inform adversary emulation scenarios, including campaign design, TTP selection, and operational sequencing.
• Apply threat modeling frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to emulate realistic attack paths and identify defensive gaps.
• Utilize AI-enabled and agentic systems to generate attack variations, automate tradecraft execution, and scale simulation coverage.
• Partner with blue team and detection engineering teams to validate detections and improve defensive capabilities.
• Analyze telemetry generated from simulations to assess detection coverage and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Contribute to simulation reports, technical documentation, and internal knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate across teams to improve offensive tooling, methodologies, and research practices.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 4+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred:
• Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 3+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, threat analysis or modeling, cybersecurity, vulnerability research, and/or anomaly detection.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of incident response, threat hunting, and/or SOC experience.
• Experience leveraging and producing threat intelligence at the campaign or actor level.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and threat modeling methodologies.
• Security related certifications such as: GCIA, GMON, GCIH, CISA.
• 3+ years of experience with coding.
• Experience in classical and deep learning machine learning methods.
Company:
Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.