Microsoft · 4 hours ago
Principal Research Software Development Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Research Software Development Engineer to join their Research Catalyst Lab. This role involves collaborating with researchers to transform innovative ideas into scalable AI capabilities while focusing on system design, implementation, and optimization.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Translate research into systems: take early concepts and turn them into robust prototypes and product-ready components
Design high velocity experimentation loops: datasets, evals, benchmarks, agent flows, safety tests, and decision frameworks
Scale and optimize: training, inference, efficiency, latency, cost, reliability
Partner cross functionally: coinvent with researchers, codesign with product teams, and land features that matter
As a Research Software Development Engineer in Microsoft Research, you will design, develop, execute, and implement technology research projects in collaboration with other team members, research partners, and product groups
Work with the team to identify, evaluate, and deploy new AI tools and technologies to accelerate our progress
As a member of a world class research organization, you will be a part of research breakthroughs and play a crucial role in driving innovation from the lab to product
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Ability to competently operate across an entire modern AI-centric software stack
Adaptability to dive into a new domain quickly
Polyglot technology curiosity
Be a voracious learner of new languages, paradigms, tools, and techniques, consuming publications
Building agentic systems that operate at cloud scale using common agent protocols and coding frameworks
Systematic use of benchmarking and other data-driven techniques to guide design and development
Ability to thrive in the face of ambiguity, able to prototype starting with a research concept or paper rather than a spec
Be a thought partner and operate as part of a multidisciplinary team as we build prototypes quickly, fail fast, pivot, and adapt
Experience with data science, machine learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, multimodal input and processing, software security
Company
Microsoft
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