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Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft AI Search

United States, Redmond Employment contract 142800.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 29, 2026
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Job Responsibility

  • Set technical direction for AI-powered image search, shaping how intelligent systems understand user intent, adapt to context, and deliver meaningful visual experiences at global scale
  • Own high-impact product and platform areas end to end, translating complex user needs into durable system designs and production-ready solutions
  • Apply large language models and multimodal AI in production, integrating reasoning and grounding capabilities to improve relevance, usefulness, and overall experience quality
  • Enable intelligent, adaptive experiences, ensuring image search systems make holistic decisions that guide users through exploration, refinement, and decision-making
  • Design and operate scalable platforms, driving high standards for performance, reliability, and efficiency under real-world workloads
  • Define success metrics and experimentation strategies, using data and user feedback to validate impact, guide tradeoffs, and inform long-term technical direction
  • Influence across teams and raise the engineering bar, partnering with product, design, data science, and platform teams, mentoring engineers, and guiding architecture and design reviews

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

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Experience building search, recommendation, or large-scale information retrieval systems
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, multimodal AI, or AI-driven reasoning systems in production
  • Experience designing evaluation, experimentation, and quality metrics for AI-powered systems
  • Background in image processing, computer vision, or content understanding pipelines
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices at scale
  • Solid product intuition and ability to balance user value, system complexity, and operational constraints
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