Job Description

Join Microsoft's Data Ingestion & Augmentation team as a Software Engineer II - CoreAI to develop advanced retrieval systems for Generative AI applications using Azure AI Search, enabling seamless integration with diverse customer data sources and enriching content with AI/ML capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
1+ years experience with Distributed systems, Artificial Intelligence, Backend Development
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements

Responsibilities

Develop connectors to integrate with diverse customer data sources and ingest content into Azure AI Search indexes
Enrich ingested content with AI/ML capabilities by generating vector embeddings, extracting key phrases, and transforming unstructured data into structured representations
Help transform traditional search indexes into intelligent AI indexes
Write secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable code, and effectively debug, test, and support it in production
Participate in system design through well-defined interfaces, code reviews, and leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions
Contribute to Microsoft ecosystem around Retrieval Augmented Generation
Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Collaborate with teams both within and outside Azure AI Search