Microsoft · 4 hours ago
Principal Software Engineering - AI Frameworks
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their AI Frameworks team, which develops software that enhances machine learning performance and experience. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, providing technical leadership, and mentoring engineers while working on cutting-edge AI technologies.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios
Providing technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Leading by example and mentoring others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company
Leveraging deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items
Holding accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Proactively seeking new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers
Embodying our Culture and Values
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. 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience developing Inference software stack
Experience working on systems performance optimization
Working with Open-Source code
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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Funding
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