16 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve distributed services supporting large-scale training runs and mission-critical AI workloads.
- Improve researcher and engineer iteration loops for reinforcement learning and LLM post-training.
- Debug model and hardware interactions and apply performance optimization techniques.
- Develop ML systems, AI infrastructure, compute orchestration, and cloud software capabilities.
- Write maintainable, secure, performant, and well-tested code and contribute to architecture and design decisions.
- Implement secure deployment, flighting, rollback, capacity planning, disaster recovery, observability, and monitoring for product features.
- Participate in rotational on-call support, mitigate live-site incidents, write postmortems, and improve troubleshooting and support documentation.
- Apply security controls, threat modeling, monitoring, incident response, and AI safety practices.
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 C, C++, C#, Python, or Java.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with cloud software development, reinforcement learning, post-training, container workloads, inference technologies, training and orchestration technologies, GPU computing, and distributed training infrastructure.
- Preferred: ability to modify, optimize, or improve models and training or inference systems rather than merely use them.
Benefits
- Base pay ranges are provided for Software Engineering IC3 and IC4 roles, with location-specific ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of five days.
- The position requires a Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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.