Microsoft · 16 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer - Power Point AI Team (Multiple Roles)
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is embarking on an exciting new chapter with the PowerPoint team, evolving a product with nearly 40 years of history into the future of AI‑powered visual creation and storytelling. The role involves leading the design and delivery of complex AI features, driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams to enhance user experience and optimize performance.
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Responsibilities
Lead design and delivery of complex, scalable AI features ensuring resilience and exceptional user experience
Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across multiple services, influencing partner teams and aligning with compliance and security requirements
Champion modern engineering practices, including AI-driven approaches, automation, and cloud-native patterns, across the full development lifecycle
Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement in security, reliability, and performance
Collaborate cross-org to solve challenging technical problems, streamline processes, and reduce operational costs while improving live-site health
Design and implement scalable backend services optimized for machine learning workflows and large language model integration
Develop and maintain evaluation-driven systems that leverage text and multimodal inputs (e.g., images) to power visual-creation experiences
Build and optimize APIs and infrastructure to support high-performance model inference and experimentation at scale
Collaborate with product, ML, and design teams to integrate models into user-facing features, ensuring seamless functionality and performance
Conduct model evaluations and experiments, analyze results, and iterate on improvements to enhance accuracy and user experience
Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance with performance benchmarks
Qualification
Required
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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are 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
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
8+ years of experience in backend service engineering, including work on high-scale infrastructures
Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, C++
1+ years of experience in software engineering, designing and developing systems (and APIs) that deploy and integrate with AI models
2+ years of experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, and carrying out rapid experimentation
2+ years of experience building software for scale, performance, and reliability
Academic or industry experience with building, finetuning, deploying or building eval-driven systems utilizing the models (any category)
Leadership skills to influence others, with the ability to understand team dynamics, retain, attract, and develop team members
Grounded in growth mindset, and an advocate for inclusive development
Experience working on the design and implementation of a user-facing product - from fast, evolving new features to long-range infrastructure and architecture investments
Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact
Commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture
Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role
Proven experience in building high-scale distributed systems and high-availability services
Deep understanding of the AI lifecycle, specifically regarding model inference and system-level optimization
Company
Microsoft
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