Software Engineer 2

Microsoft Azure AI Inference platform is the next generation cloud business positioned to address the growing AI market. We are on the verge of an AI revolution and have a tremendous opportunity to empower our partners and customers to harness the full power of AI responsibly. We offer a fully managed AI Inference platform to accelerate the research, development, and operations of AI powered intelligent solutions at scale. This team owns the hosting, optimization, and scaling the inference stack for all the Azure AI Foundary models including the latest and greatest from OpenAI, Grok, DeepSeek, and other OSS models. Do you want to join a team entrusted with serving all internal and external ML workloads, solve real world inference problems for state-of-the-art large language (LLM) and multi-modal Gen AI models from OpenAI and other model providers? We are already serving billions of inferences per day on the most cutting-edge AI scenarios across the industry. You will be joining the AI Core Inferencing team, influencing the overall product, driving new features and platform capabilities from preview to General Availability, and many exciting problems on the intersection of AI and Cloud. We’re looking for a passionate Software Engineer 2 to drive the design, optimization, and scaling of our inference systems. In this role, you’ll lead engineering efforts to ensure our largest models run efficiently in high-throughput, low-latency environments. You will get to work on and influence multiple levels of the AI Inference data plane stack.