Senior Technical Support Engineer

With more than 45000 employees and partners worldwide the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsofts products and services ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution ensuring that we consistently exceed customers expectations in every interaction whether in-product digital or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company including consulting customer success and support across Microsofts portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Within CE&S the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support CSS we are powered by Microsofts AI technology to help consumers businesses partners and more resolve their issues quickly and securely helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for engineers with a passion for building software that drives customer success. As a **SeniorTechnical Support Engineer** you will own design and ship the AI andsoftware systems that resolve highly complex customer technical problems atfleet scale. This opportunity will accelerate your career growth sharpen yoursystem-design problem-solving and cross-team collaboration skills and deepenyour technical proficiency across applied AI distributed services andproduction engineering becoming a domain and platform expert.

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.

Youll own complex AI initiatives end to end: partnering with applied science and engineering to shape architecture and integrated customer solutions model selection retrieval-augmented and agentic pipelines prompt and tooling design and safety guardrails.

Youll drive the roadmap schedules and staging and release plans against clear objectives; lead governance across the AI development lifecycle (Responsible AI review model-risk privacy and compliance); and validate outcomes against real telemetry.

Youll own the customer supportability experience and act as a trusted technical person who evangelizes and drives the right work.

Youll design and ship scalable AI and software systems including:

An agent platform - an extensible Model Context Protocol (MCP)based system of AI diagnostic skills integrated with enterprise data services run inside engineers existing tools (CLI VS Code and chat).
Production engineering rails - CI-enforced quality gates evaluation regression testing comprehensive data science telemetry and supply-chain security that let us ship AI safely and at scale. Every system is instrumented to surface performance adoption and quality signals in real time.
Language-model pipelines - training fine-tuning (including RLHF) and automated evaluation of models that reason over and assess support cases.
Quality-evaluation systems - rubric-based LLM-as-judge evaluation that scores case handling and surfaces coaching and compliance signals.
Intelligent case-routing services - classification and ranking models that route cases to the right team and catch misrouted cases early.
Privacy-preserving data tooling - a redaction pipeline (pattern-matching transformer models LLM) that protects PII and secrets across every data flow forming the trusted substrate the rest of the platform depends on.

Required/minimum qualifications

Technical Support Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106400 - $203600 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 $137600 - $222600 per year.

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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.

Required Experience:

IC