Senior Software Engineer - AI Search

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer role in AI Search at Microsoft's Azure AI Knowledge team, focusing on retrieval augmented generation and delivering high-quality results for customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in development of Azure Services with an understanding of service release and live-site responsibilities.
• 6+ months of experience developing large language models (LLMs).
• 2+ years of experience developing GPU based models and model hosting.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Azure backend services and associated APIs.
• Partner with Applied Science to bring high quality prompts, ML models and pre and post processing components into production.
• Work directly with GPUs to support production ML workloads at scale.
• Providing evaluation tooling and support of production integrations to ensure end-to-end AI quality of Applied Science deliverables.
• Contribute to team plans, documents, and communication in a clear and efficient way.

Benefits

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.