Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Building the next generation platform for Bing and hirify.global, focusing on creating models and systems for discovering, storing, and processing Web content and protecting users from Spam, Scams, and malware. Focus on advancing the platform and pipelines that power the MAI Web Data’s Safety systems and instantiating new technology into production.

Location: Must 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 and expected to work from the office at least four days per week.

Salary: USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year.

Company

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

What you will do

• Partner with stakeholders to determine requirements, lead the identification of dependencies, and drive project plans and work items.
• Lead by example, and mentor other engineers to produce extensible, scalable, high-performance, resilient, and maintainable design and code.
• Inspire accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across teams, monitoring system/product/service, and proactively improving them.
• Promote innovation and engineering excellence by seeking and sharing new knowledge and adapting to new trends and technical solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka) or building highly scalable backend systems (e.g., distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud-native services).

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python.
• Experience with processing Terabyte to Petabyte scale data with efficient algorithms for feature engineering, and experience with optimizing for high inference ROI and deploying AI/ML models.
• Familiarity with Search stack and Grounding stack for AI Assistants, black-hat SEO and malicious techniques targeting traditional & generative search, and AI Assistants.

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.