1 day ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the highest-stakes forward-deployed engagements from discovery and planning through implementation, validation, production adoption, and measurable outcomes.
- Design and ship integrations, prototypes, reference implementations, tooling, and platform changes in customer and Microsoft codebases.
- Serve as the technical face of Windows to CTOs, engineering executives, principal engineers, and implementation teams.
- Define the team’s engagement model, technical quality bar, security and privacy standards, and reusable reference architectures, tooling, instrumentation, and playbooks.
- Translate customer evidence into Windows platform and product roadmap changes using reproductions, measurements, architectural analysis, and business impact.
- Mentor forward-deployed engineers, review technical work, transfer knowledge across field and product teams, and help establish hiring and performance standards.
- Communicate findings, tradeoffs, risks, progress, and adoption outcomes to customer and Microsoft stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding, or equivalent experience.
- Programming experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Preferred experience owning technical relationships and outcomes for strategic partners or major enterprise engineering organizations.
- Preferred experience founding a team, practice, or engagement model and converting bespoke customer work into reusable assets.
- Preferred technical depth in LLM applications and agents, evaluation, local and hybrid inference, developer environments, toolchains, WSL, containers, system performance and reliability, enterprise security, and identity controls.
- Preferred production programming experience in Python and at least one of TypeScript, C#, Rust, Go, C, or C++.
- Preferred experience influencing platform roadmaps through customer evidence, mentoring senior engineers, and raising a team’s technical bar.
- Deep Windows platform expertise or the ability to develop that expertise quickly is preferred; familiarity with WinUI, WPF, .NET desktop, and application modernization is valuable.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Benefits
- Employees living within 50 miles of the Redmond campus must work in the office at least 3 days per week.
- The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.