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Senior Technical Threat Analyst - Graph & AI-Driven Threat Intelligence
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 17, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. We are seeking a Senior Technical Threat Analyst with expertise in nation-state cyber threat analysis, hands-on experience using graph-based hunting environments (e.g., Vertex Synapse, neo4j, or similar) and expertise in using these concepts in conjunction with Agentic AI. This role bridges traditional intelligence analysis and applied agentic AI, leveraging cutting-edge models to accelerate discovery, contextualization, and attribution of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable navigating graph relationships in large-scale data systems and experimenting with AI frameworks to generate, validate, and refine hypotheses about adversary behavior. You'll blend human analytic tradecraft with graph solutions and emerging AI capabilities to uncover new patterns, accelerate investigations, and enhance how intelligence teams understand and communicate adversary intent.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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesLead graph-based hunting and correlation across diverse datasets to surface relationships among indicators, infrastructure, malware, and threat actor activity.Design and implement AI-assisted analytic workflows, applying agentic models to explore, summarize, and reason about complex intelligence questions.Evaluate and compare LLM models (OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, and others) for accuracy, reliability, and relevance in analytical contexts.Partner with data engineers and AI researchers to prototype intelligent analyst agents capable of multi-hop reasoning and contextual evidence retrieval.Conduct expert-level analysis of nation-state and APT group activity, including tactics, techniques, infrastructure patterns, and geopolitical drivers.Translate graph-based findings into clear, actionable intelligence that supports both defensive operations and executive decision-making.Collaborate across product, research, and operations teams to enhance detection, hunting, and attribution methodologies.Stay current on advances in graph theory, AI reasoning frameworks, and adversary tradecraft, integrating new approaches into team workflows. | |