Microsoft

Applied AI Engineer

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16 hours ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Translate product specifications into AI service architectures, agent workflows, data integrations, and scalable service designs.
  • Build agentic AI workflows using Azure AI Foundry Agent Service and Microsoft Agent Framework, including multi-agent coordination, tool integrations, and lifecycle management.
  • Develop LLM-based solutions through prompt engineering, model selection, cost and token optimization, and RAG pipeline design.
  • Build evaluation systems using rubrics, golden datasets, and judge agents to assess correctness and safety.
  • Write production-quality C# and Python and apply testing, reliability, performance, and security standards.
  • Deploy services through CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, staged rollouts, and production observability with tracing, logging, and metrics.
  • Implement secure service patterns including RBAC, Managed Identities, and secrets management.
  • Integrate agents with Azure data sources and cloud-native services to ground responses in real-time signals.
  • Apply Responsible AI practices and own the full lifecycle of AI service components, including deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
  • Preferred: 4+ years of software engineering experience in C# and/or Python with production deployment experience.
  • Preferred: experience with LLM-based systems, prompt engineering, RAG, agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, and agent-to-agent communication protocols.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Azure services, CI/CD, automated testing, production observability, evaluation frameworks, vector retrieval, container orchestration, microservices, and cloud-native deployment.
  • Preferred: experience with security best practices, data structures, algorithms, system design, and Agile or sprint-based delivery.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is provided through Microsoft's careers site.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
  • Passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check is required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Tech Stack

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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