Microsoft

Principal SWE Lead

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12 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, deploy, and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions, diagnostic experiences, orchestration workflows, and supporting platforms.
  • Set technical direction through architecture, engineering strategy, design principles, and reusable enterprise-scale patterns.
  • Develop critical production components, conduct design and code reviews, establish testing standards, and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Integrate AI solutions with support systems, APIs, knowledge sources, telemetry, enterprise data, access controls, and data-handling processes.
  • Advance planning, context and state management, tool use, multi-agent coordination, retrieval, grounding, observability, and failure recovery.
  • Build technical, unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end evaluation and testing capabilities for prompts, models, tools, workflows, and integrations.
  • Evaluate accuracy, groundedness, task completion, robustness, latency, cost, safety, and failure modes at deployment milestones.
  • Deploy and operate services in Microsoft cloud environments while meeting security, privacy, compliance, Responsible AI, reliability, and scalability requirements.
  • Define success metrics and telemetry, create monitoring and incident-response mechanisms, and drive continuous improvement for production AI systems.
  • Influence cross-organizational priorities and technical tradeoffs, mentor engineers, raise engineering quality, and maintain architecture and operational documentation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, with the ability to contribute directly to production code.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 8+ years of experience, a bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on experience building applied AI systems involving generative AI, large language models, or autonomous agents.
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating highly available, secure, and scalable cloud services and distributed systems.
  • Experience with APIs, data platforms, observability, testing, production operations, enterprise integrations, security boundaries, identity, data governance, and compliance controls.
  • Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure services, or comparable enterprise AI and cloud platforms.
  • Expertise in agent platforms, multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge systems, AI evaluation, prompt engineering, model selection, or ML infrastructure.
  • Experience developing generative AI evaluation frameworks and quality gates covering groundedness, safety, robustness, and task success.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical decisions to engineering, product, business, and executive audiences.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
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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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