Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company specializing in AI software development. The Principal Software Engineer will work on developing and evaluating core algorithmic and hardware technologies to enable large scale inferencing and training of advanced AI models.
Application Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentData ManagementDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Collaborate broadly with ML researchers, system engineers, and production engineers
Engage with key partners to understand and evaluate performance and quality for state-of-the-art LLMs at different scales
Build software tools to support validation and exploration of LLM optimization technologies
Perform software development in model scripting and/or kernel languages, such as Python, C/C++, CUDA
Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables
Qualification
Required
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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience in training or serving Deep Neural Network models
Experience with Language Models and ML system optimization
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1MKey Investors
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