Software Engineer, Health (AI)

Location: New York, United States or Redmond, United States

Salary: USD $119,800–$234,700 per year for IC4; USD $142,800–$274,800 per year for IC5

Company

Microsoft AI develops AI models and services designed to help users understand and proactively manage their health and wellbeing.

What you will do

• Collaborate with AI researchers, clinicians, product managers, designers, and engineers to develop AI health products.
• Own feature development from ideation and specification through deployment and iteration.
• Design, build, and optimize production-grade software within a large existing architecture.
• Evaluate AI features with Applied AI specialists and clinicians to maintain effectiveness and safety throughout the product lifecycle.
• Deliver user experiences across backend, web, mobile, and Applied AI domains.
• Improve resilience, maintainability, security, hiring pipelines, onboarding frameworks, and engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
• Professional coding experience with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or comparable languages.
• Expertise building products at scale in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, web, mobile, or Applied AI.
• Experience in healthcare technology.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and contribute to reliable, secure, maintainable software.
• Work location: New York or Redmond, United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with regulated medical devices or other high-trust, safety-critical products.
• Experience designing and operating agentic AI systems with tool use, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and failure handling.
• Experience using AI coding agents to build production software.
• Experience building products from 0 to 1 and working through ambiguity in cross-functional teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Growth mindset, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.
• Opportunity to work with healthcare, big tech, and frontier AI research backgrounds.
• Benefits and additional compensation may be available depending on the role.