21 hours ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship AI systems from exploration through production, including LLM-based services, retrieval and grounding pipelines, evaluation, and observability.
- Build agentic and tool-using workflows that reason across data and services while optimizing safety, latency, and cost at cloud scale.
- Adapt and fine-tune LLMs and SLMs, including multimodal models, for real customer scenarios in partnership with research and product teams.
- Lead technical direction across features and services, mentor engineers, and promote high engineering standards, reliability, accessibility, and inclusion.
- Apply Responsible AI, security, and compliance practices to system design, data handling, and experimentation.
- Participate in on-call and operational excellence activities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software or services, including 3+ years with modern ML such as transformer-based LLMs and applied AI/ML systems.
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, C#, or C++, with design and architecture experience for cloud services; Azure experience is preferred.
- Hands-on experience taking LLM or ML features from prototype to production, including evaluation, safety, telemetry, and iterative improvement.
- Ability to influence across teams and drive ambiguous, multi-partner initiatives to outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with agentic systems, model and tool orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, Azure AI, vector stores, prompt and response evaluation, LLM performance optimization, applied research productionization, custom or fine-tuned models, Responsible AI, and accessibility standards.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $165,600-$296,400 per year; a different range applies in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- The position is open for at least 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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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.