Microsoft

Software Engineer II - Excel Team

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, ship, and operate AI-powered spreadsheet features.
  • Contribute to architecture, design, code reviews, debugging, deployment, monitoring, operational readiness, code quality, performance, reliability, security, and customer experience.
  • Develop end-to-end AI product experiences spanning rich user interfaces, workbook and enterprise context, application logic, model orchestration, services, data access, and platform capabilities.
  • Build large-language-model workflows that understand user intent, reason over spreadsheet data, invoke tools, and support calculation, analysis, visualization, organization, and sharing.
  • Build grounded agentic experiences using permission-aware context, validated model outputs, evaluation, telemetry, and safeguards.
  • Apply responsible AI practices including transparency, user control, privacy, security, guardrails, uncertainty handling, and fallbacks.
  • Prototype with emerging models and tools, validate assumptions, and mature successful concepts into production solutions.
  • Collaborate across Engineering, Product Management, Design, Applied Science, Research, and partner teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production software.
  • Preferred experience with full-stack, web, client, or distributed systems development and software fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and performance analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with large language models, generative AI, machine learning, or natural-language interfaces is preferred.
  • Preferred experience building production AI applications with agent orchestration, tool or function calling, retrieval and grounding, prompt and context engineering, structured outputs, evaluation, observability, and safeguards.
  • Preferred experience using AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering judgment, review, and validation.
  • Preferred experience developing rich, data-intensive applications with JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern user-interface framework.
  • Experience with spreadsheets, productivity, collaboration, analytics, data visualization, or business intelligence features is preferred.
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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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