Senior Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI): Building distributed data systems, data pipelines, and APIs to power adaptive, context-aware experiences across hirify.global. Focus on personalization is safe, transparent, and user-controlled.

Location: Expected to work from the Redmond, United States office at least four days per week for employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office.

Salary: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year.

Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

What you will do

• Architect scalable, low-latency systems/data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and serving personalized signals.
• Design, build, and maintain robust pipelines for telemetry, product usage, and experimentation data.
• Design data models and APIs that enable Copilot to reason about user context, preferences, and history.
• Build real-time and batch personalization engines that adapt Copilot’s behavior.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, and responsible AI teams to ensure personalization is safe, transparent, and user-controlled.
• Optimize for performance, reliability, and cost across diverse workloads and geographies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years’ experience building scalable services, including securing applications and infrastructure on top of cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• 3+ years’ experience in OSS data technology, such as Kafka, Spark, Flink.

Nice to have

• Experience with large scale data systems.
• Experience working with AI platforms, frameworks, and APIs.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and user experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.
• Embody our Culture and Values.