Job Description
Overview Microsoft Advertising serves billions of ad decisions every day across search, native, shopping, display, audience, and AI-powered advertising experiences. Trust & Safety is foundational to this marketplace: protecting users from harmful, deceptive, and low-quality content; protecting advertisers, publishers, and partners from fraud and abuse; and ensuring Microsoft Ads operates with strong policy, privacy, security, compliance, and regulatory integrity.We are seeking a deeply technical Senior Principal Architects to define and drive the next generation of the Ads Trust & Safety AI Platform . This is a engineering leadership role that entails setting technical direction, shaping platform strategy, influencing multiple engineering and science teams, and building durable systems that compound across Trust & Safety, Risk, Fraud, Security, Policy, Measurement, and Enforcement. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can combine large-scale platform engineering with modern AI systems: agentic investigation workflows, LLM-powered reasoning, retrieval and evidence generation, heterogeneous model serving, risk intelligence, human-in-the-loop review, and high-integrity decisioning.The platform will power how Microsoft Ads understands advertisers, domains, landing pages, websites, business entities, policy risk, fraud signals, and adversarial behavior. It will enable faster and more reliable enforcement decisions, richer evidence for reviewers and investigators, safer automation, and stronger marketplace protection. A key part of this role is collaboration across the broader Trust ecosystem: Microsoft Ads, Microsoft Trust and Safety teams across products, Security, Identity, and relevant worldwide industry peers and partners. The role requires someone who can evangelize technical direction, learn from adjacent teams and industry practices, align standards, and convert shared learnings into production-grade platform capabilities. Responsibilities AI Platform
