Microsoft

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineer

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17 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Translate customer business needs into clear technical approaches and drive customer outcomes.
  • Build, deploy, and deliver production-grade solutions in customer environments with end-to-end ownership.
  • Deliver iterative, high-impact solutions quickly while operating effectively in ambiguous and complex environments.
  • Engage senior stakeholders, build trust, align priorities, and guide technical and business decisions.
  • Tailor solutions using industry and customer context rather than generic approaches.
  • Prepare and transition work to FDE crews with clear scope and technical direction.
  • Navigate complex account dynamics, set boundaries, and drive urgency and accountability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Preferred: master's degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and cloud AI platforms.
  • Comfort with travel of up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Travel of up to 25% is required or expected.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.

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Forward Deployed
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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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