Microsoft

Senior Applied AI Engineer

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20 hours ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Analyze support-case trends, customer issue patterns, and technical signals to identify recurring failures and gaps in Azure diagnostics and documentation.
  • Design and build production agentic AI services using LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, agent workflows, tool integrations, memory and state management, and human-in-the-loop experiences.
  • Write, review, test, and maintain production-quality C# and Python code while building reusable components and engineering patterns.
  • Translate customer support scenarios and product requirements into technical designs and deliver solutions through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop AI evaluation frameworks using rubrics, golden datasets, simulations, judge models, and offline and online evaluation.
  • Engineer for correctness, reliability, availability, latency, scalability, maintainability, cost efficiency, and safety.
  • Implement privacy protections, prompt-injection defenses, least-privilege access, identity and authorization controls, approval gates, auditability, and fail-safe behavior.
  • Integrate AI services with Azure data sources, APIs, and cloud-native services.
  • Operate production services with automated testing, staged rollouts, tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, and incident response.
  • Lead design reviews, coordinate implementation across contributors, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, research, platform, Azure service, and support teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred experience with LLM-based systems, prompt engineering, RAG, agent frameworks, Azure services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
  • Preferred experience designing AI evaluation systems with rubrics, golden datasets, judge models, simulations, adversarial testing, and offline or online evaluation.
  • Preferred experience with agent security, reliable distributed services, observability, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, feature management, and staged production deployment.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution, influence design decisions, mentor engineers without formal people-management authority, and connect engineering investments to customer and operational outcomes.
  • Background in customer support engineering, supportability, diagnostics, or customer-experience platforms is a plus.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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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