Senior Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI): Utilizing advanced AI systems to ensure content quality, trust, and safety for end-users across products like Windows, Edge, and Outlook. Focus on optimizing content delivery, user experience, and applying AI and LLM-based techniques.

Location: Hybrid - Employees who live within a 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Salary: CAD $114,400 – CAD $203,900 per year

Company

hirify.global (MAI) is scaling a global content powerhouse featuring 7,000 active brands, with a mission to captivate over 100M daily active users.

What you will do

• Independently use appropriate AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner.
• Lead discussions for and own the architecture of products/solutions and create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications.
• Design and create complex distributed systems workflows by gathering requirements from partner teams, identifying dependencies, and driving alignment and design with partner and product teams.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to implement services that offer five 9s of availabilities.
• Monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gain approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remain current in skills to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have

• Can design and create complex distributed systems workflows by gathering requirements from partner teams, identifying of dependencies, and driving alignment and design with partner and product teams, and finally leading the implementation of the solution.
• Demonstrable history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
• Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with demonstrated testing, debugging and analytical skills.
• Data-driven mindset. Ability to analyze data and persuade your team using effective analysis.
• Excellent learning, problem solving and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
• Values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.