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Principal Software Engineer- AI

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year
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Job Description:

Project Sophia is a new generation business application, built ground up from market-disruptive, AI-first product principles. The product has been designed to completely re-define how complex, cross domain business problems are solved. Every interaction, every component and every user experience has been designed leveraging the full power and potential of generative AI and is taking the notion of AI based experiences way beyond the standard AI chat experiences.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design, implement, and ship AI-first product capabilities end-to-end from rapid prototype to production, spanning LLM-powered services, retrieval/grounding pipelines, and intelligent UX experiences
  • Shape and evolve full-stack architecture, integrating front-end experiences, back-end services, and AI orchestration layers
  • Collaborate with design, research, and platform teams to adapt or fine-tune LLMs/SLMs and multimodal models for real-world customer scenarios
  • Build agentic, tool-using, and multimodal workflows that reason across data and services
  • Drive engineering excellence, including secure-by-design principles, accessibility compliance, automated testing, and high-quality code craftsmanship
  • Define and apply evaluation frameworks for AI systems, using telemetry, experimentation, and continuous feedback loops
  • Drive live-site reliability and operational excellence, participating in On-Call rotations

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
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent or relevant industry experience
  • 8+ years of experience with modern web technologies such as .NET / Node / React / Angular, building RESTful APIs
  • Solid experience in an OO language such as C#, Java, or Python
  • Experience working with generative AI, large language models, or agent-based systems in production scenarios
  • Proven track record of designing and delivering complex, scalable systems
  • Excellence in one or more general programming languages including but not limited to: Python, C#
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Comfortable driving complex server & client architecture across large product teams
  • Hands-on experience with modern LLM evaluation techniques, including LLM-as-a-Judge, agentic evaluations, and RAG assessments
  • A track record of delivering successful, large-scale applied ML projects in an industry setting
  • Experience with MLOps practices, including model versioning, automated testing, monitoring, and CI/CD for machine learning
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Skilled in building and operating infrastructure using Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, and deploying containerized models with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar tools
  • Solid coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills, with a focus on system-level thinking

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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