Senior Software Engineer – AI Frameworks

Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users that impact their daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast‑cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) frameworks team with ambitious goals to advance AI technology? The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes the cutting edge of performance and experience in machine learning in production and research.

We bridge the gap between the latest state‑of‑the‑art AI models and hardware ecosystems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world’s fastest super‑cloud computers to servers, desktops, mobile phones, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Internet browsers. The framework we develop is powering AI experience for all major Microsoft products, such as Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, Bing, SQL Server, VS Code, Cognitive Service, Copilot+ PC, and many others.

• ONNX: an open standard format for representing AI models, enabling AI developers to work on AI models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.

• ONNX Runtime: ONNX based cross‑platform, high‑performance ML inferencing and training accelerator.

• Foundry Local: an on‑device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API.

We value our team members’ happiness and encourage everyone to constantly learn new things and take risks. We collaborate closely and openly to accomplish big things together while having fun. 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test a function or component for our AI/ML frameworks and tools.

• Speed up or reduce the complexity of key components/pipelines to improve performance and/or efficiency of our systems.

• Interact and collaborate with our partners both internal and external.

• Interact with and provide tech support for our customers/users.

• Embody our …

Qualifications

• 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#, Python, or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience in AI frameworks, large‑scale distributed computation, system programming, compiler or machine learning.

• 4+ years of experience successfully collaborating with cross‑functional teams, owning deliverables and driving results to meet business objectives.

• 2+ years of experience building Android applications from scratch.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check – this position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on systems performance optimization.

• Experience working with Open‑Source code.

Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .#coreai#aifx

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