Senior Software Engineer

Overview

In an era of unprecedented speed of AI advances, new techniques are needed to build software that leverage the latest AI capabilities. The AI Systems team develops solutions that help traditional computer systems work with new AI capabilities. The team works with product and service teams to apply these solutions across Experiences & Devices (E&D). We tackle some of the most critical AI challenges helping Microsoft's products and services become smarter, more secure, efficient, and delightful.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Systems team, you will be formulating design patterns and algorithms to solve novel problems in the AI transformation, creating prototypes to demonstrate new scenarios, architecting solutions to integrate with existing products and services, and help deliver new AI enabled experiences in product and services across E&D. You will work with teams spanning Windows, Office, SharePoint, One Drive, Exchange, Teams, Edge, and more.

This role offers opportunities to collaborate with technical leaders across Microsoft, directly influencing AI decisions that shape the future of our products. You will sharpen your AI expertise as we refine, improve, and scale Microsoft's innovations.

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

* Innovating and testing new approaches or novel theoretical/practical designs leveraging AI capabilities

* Working with code base across all partner teams to build prototypes demonstrating new experiences using our innovation

* Work with partner teams to align scenarios and technical direction with business goals

* Participate/lead v-teams to develop and execute engineering plans

* Write extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code

* Use debugging tools to validate assumptions and improve quality.

* Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks

* Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

* OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

* OR equivalent experience.

* Proven ability to independently drive changes with cross-team dependencies and ambiguous business requirements.

* Excellent communication and documentation skills.

* Demonstrated understanding of agent-based systems, distributed computing, or autonomous software design.

* Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and integration into agent workflows.

* Experience in training/fine-tuning AI models

* Experience contributing to and maintaining open-source projects

* Experience with cloud-native development and deployment (Azure, AWS, GCP).

* An intellectual curiosity and passion about learning new technologies

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.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per…