Senior Software Engineer (AI, Copilot)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI): Building distributed systems and APIs that power adaptive, context-aware experiences across hirify.global with an accent on distributed data infrastructure and personalization pipelines. Focus on designing data models and APIs that enable reasoning about user context, preferences, and history.

Location: Expected to work from the office at least four days per week if living within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S.

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

Company

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

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 discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience building systems with coding in languages including Python, C#, C++, Golang, Rust, Java OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years’ experience building scalable services, including securing applications and infrastructure on top of cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• 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.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Embody Microsoft's culture and values, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
• Work in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
• Equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.