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Senior Language Engineer

Microsoft

Location

Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

7/30/2026

Compensation

$119,800 - $261,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202696.0% approval-64% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Senior Language Engineer role at Microsoft AI Experiences focuses on enhancing the capabilities of the personal AI, Copilot. This position involves collaborating with a diverse team of data scientists, AI researchers, engineers, designers, and product managers to improve language models. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, proactive, and passionate about creating world-class consumer experiences. This role is pivotal in shaping how Copilot interacts with users through language.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of related experience, or a Master's Degree with 3+ years, or a Doctorate with 1+ year of related experience.
  • 3+ years of experience working in a fast-paced environment managing multiple priorities.
  • Hands-on experience with prompt design, context window management, and model evaluation.
  • 2+ years of experience shipping consumer-facing products and iteratively improving them.
  • 1+ years of experience in building LLM applications with familiarity in agent and orchestration frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Craft and refine the context and prompts used to steer, train, and evaluate the language models for Microsoft Copilot.
  • Create evaluations and establish frameworks to measure both technical performance and emotional intelligence.
  • Research and implement novel prompting techniques.
  • Extract insights from extensive language datasets to improve model response quality.
  • Own the status of key projects, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions for timely delivery.

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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Microsoft Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

503

FY2026

Approval rate

96.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

3,062

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-64%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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