Principal Software Engineer Responsible AI (CoreAI)

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities more innovation more openness and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

TheCoreAIorganization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end AI stack and is core to Azure AI innovation and differentiation as well as all of Microsofts flagship products from GitHub to Office Teams and Xbox. We are the team building Responsible AI Azure OpenAI Model as a Service Azure ML Cognitive Services and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the do not just value differences or different perspectives we seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result our customers are better served. Within CoreAI the Foundry team empowers builders around the world of all skill levels to easily create AI apps.

TheResponsible AIgroup focuses on identifying measuring mitigating and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text image audio video and multimodal content. We are looking for aPrincipal Software Engineer - Responsible AIwho is passionate about building customer-facing AI services with scalable and sustainable architecture and implementation and with high performance low latency and high this role you will work with a unique group of talented engineers scientists and product managers to build the industrys best Responsible AI services. You will own the design of new AI services and integration with existing services such as Azure AI Content Safety Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Studio and more.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day.

• Design and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability scalability robustness and observability.
• Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
• Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the teams DevOps culture.
• Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
• Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.
• Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the products business needs.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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 Go or Python
  • OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 6 years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
• 4 years of technical engineering experience with machine learning model development release and operations.
• Ability to navigate the company and influence and inspire peers in engineering and broad product development.
• Demonstrate depth of knowledge and understanding of software architecture design tradeoffs and practices of mature DevOps culture.
• Track record of pursuing and delivering innovative insights that translate to value generation.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

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Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165600 - $296400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220800 - $331200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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