Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - Maia Model Enablement

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15 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical strategy for enabling new AI models, model architectures, and Maia hardware generations.
  • Lead complex cross-stack investigations involving models, serving systems, infrastructure, and hardware.
  • Drive platform-wide performance, scalability, and serving improvements across multiple models and hardware generations.
  • Create automation, validation, and engineering systems that improve the speed, reliability, and repeatability of model enablement.
  • Align model, software, infrastructure, and hardware teams around technical direction, execution plans, and long-term platform investments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C++ or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Understanding of modern AI model architectures, inference systems, performance optimization, and serving stacks is preferred.
  • Experience diagnosing complex problems across models, software, systems, infrastructure, and hardware is preferred.
  • Experience enabling software on new hardware platforms, accelerators, or large-scale systems through bring-up, performance characterization, hardware-software debugging, or platform enablement is preferred.
  • Experience with modern engineering tools, AI-assisted workflows, automation, and agents is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive high-impact technical investments from concept through production and lead cross-team technical initiatives is preferred.

Benefits

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

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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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