$142,800–$274,800 Per Year
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Background Investigation, C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Computer Science, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Engineering, Java, JavaScript, Microsoft C# (C Sharp), Microsoft Product Family, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Software Development, Systems Scalability
Overview
We're living in an era of more possibilities, more innovation, and more openness. As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for a passionate Member of Technical Staff to work with us on some of the most interesting and challenging AI problems. Our vision is bold and broad -- to build a truly open architecture v1 platform -- to enable and reimagine how users can summon bespoke AI agents to drive real meaningful business outcomes.
Responsibilities
This role involves crafting user-facing features powered by Generative AI while taking full ownership of their development from inception to delivery, ensuring exceptional quality and seamless implementation. You'll be working closely with some of the world's most recognizable brands, helping them catapult into the AI transformation era.
Ideal candidates will have a balanced combination of theoretical AI knowledge and practical software development experience, enabling them to design, develop, and deploy sophisticated software systems at scale, with an experimentation and iterative mindset. Candidates for this role should also demonstrate customer passion, a bias for action, and an ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries.
Come and build the next generation of AI agents!
Qualifications
Required qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Other requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred qualifications
- Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Competence with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Solid understanding and successful demonstration of system security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Practical Experience with AI/LLMs: Experience designing and implementing ML/LLM-based solutions in production environments.
- Experience leveraging generative AI technologies to develop innovative and user-focused product features.
- Capable of optimizing, prompting and finetuning AI-based solutions for performance, accuracy, and scalability.
- Experience coaching and growing engineers within the team.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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