10 days ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship secure software using Microsoft security and privacy practices, threat modeling, and safe deployment patterns.
- Partner directly with customer engineering teams, stakeholders, and domain experts to define goals, constraints, requirements, and solution approaches.
- Architect and implement cloud and AI solutions from prototype through production.
- Improve reliability through automation, iterative delivery, testing, observability, and other modern engineering practices.
- Deliver measurable customer outcomes, support adoption, and provide coaching, knowledge transfer, and documentation.
- Create reusable reference implementations, frameworks, and best-practice patterns for broader use.
- Lead technical decisions in ambiguous and rapidly changing AI problem spaces while balancing value, feasibility, compliance, and risk.
- Set technical direction, unblock teams, mentor engineers, and communicate tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product, design, data science, security, and operations partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Preferred: master’s degree with 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions in production, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, and performance monitoring.
- Preferred: experience using cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML or OpenAI.
- Comfort with travel of up to 25%.
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.