2 days ago
Redmond, WA, USA +2 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$143k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and operate production-quality components across AI frameworks, runtimes, benchmarking systems, performance tooling, and service integrations.
- Benchmark, profile, debug, and optimize large language model training and inference workloads across GPUs and Microsoft hardware.
- Build automation and observability to detect regressions, improve reproducibility, surface actionable insights, and accelerate model and hardware onboarding.
- Drive projects from problem definition through deployment while balancing delivery speed, maintainability, reliability, and measurable impact.
- Partner with researchers, model teams, infrastructure owners, hardware vendors, product groups, and other teams to diagnose cross-stack issues and deliver production-ready solutions.
- Define technical vision and architecture for critical AI framework, performance, benchmarking, or developer-productivity capabilities at the Principal level.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through prototyping, implementation, design and code reviews, debugging, operational readiness, mentoring, and engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ 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 upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Senior-level preferred experience building and operating complex software systems and practical knowledge of performance analysis, benchmarking, automation, or developer tooling.
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX Runtime.
- Familiarity with GPU software and profiling technologies such as CUDA, ROCm, or Triton.
- Principal-level preferred experience designing and shipping complex, high-performance, or distributed software systems.
- Principal-level experience in software architecture, computer architecture, accelerator-aware optimization, AI/ML workloads and frameworks, cross-team technical initiatives, reusable platforms, stakeholder influence, and mentoring technical leaders.
Benefits
- Base pay is provided in different ranges for Software Engineering IC5 and IC6 roles, with location-specific ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position remains open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.