Research Engineer II

AI agents are rapidly becoming foundational across industries, transforming how organizations automate workflows, make decisions, and scale productivity. Unlike traditional promptbased systems, modern agents can reason, plan, and execute actions autonomously unlocking new business scenarios and operational efficiencies. By 2028, more than 1.3 billion agents are expected to be in active use worldwide, creating not only unprecedented opportunities but also a massive new ecosystem that organizations must govern, monitor, and secure. Agent 365 is Microsoft’s unified control plane for AI agents—providing a comprehensive platform for agent registry, lifecycle management, access governance, observability, interoperability, and security. The Agent 365 Tools Team builds the tooling, infrastructure, and evaluation systems that empower agents to perform reliably at scale. We are seeking a Research Engineer II to develop core tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure that enable agents to use tools effectively, evaluate tool performance, and drive continuous improvement across the agent ecosystem.