Microsoft

Software Engineer II (Agentic AI)

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10 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Turn new agent ideas into working prototypes and partner through demos and seller pilots.
  • Build agents, multi-step workflows, MCP servers, skills, tools, and plugins connected to Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Microsoft Graph, and internal sales systems.
  • Build lightweight LLM evaluations using golden sets, LLM-as-judge scoring, traces, and quality, latency, and cost reporting.
  • Harden successful prototypes with tests, telemetry, authentication, and Responsible AI review for production handoff.
  • Write design notes, demonstrate work, share findings about models and agent tooling, participate in code and design reviews, and share on-call DRI duty.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience, or a master’s degree and 3+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM applications, including prompt design, tool or function calling, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent frameworks.
  • Experience building or integrating MCP servers or exposing APIs and data to agents as tools.
  • Experience with agent frameworks or platforms such as Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Claude Agent SDK.
  • Experience rapidly building hackathon projects, MVPs, demos, or internal tools, ideally with software reaching real users.
  • Full-stack experience with back-end APIs, React/TypeScript front ends, and deployment to Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Experience evaluating LLM output with golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, prompt or model comparisons, or agent tracing.
  • Working knowledge of Responsible AI practices including grounding, content safety, prompt-injection defenses, and PII handling.
  • Daily fluent use of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
  • Familiarity with Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, or CRM systems such as Salesforce.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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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