The Principal AI Engineer role at Microsoft Security focuses on leading execution excellence for the AI engineering team. This position aims to transform how AI engineers build, validate, and ship secure, enterprise-scale AI solutions. The role emphasizes increasing engineering throughput through an AI-native development model and redesigning workflows to embed AI assistance throughout the lifecycle. The engineer will work hands-on to establish delivery mechanisms, remove bottlenecks, and coach teams to effectively leverage AI.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Demonstrated success improving execution across engineering teams through operating mechanisms, platform leverage, automation, and measurable constraint removal.
• Deep hands-on expertise with modern AI engineering, including LLM application patterns, agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, data pipelines, and production operations.
• Strong software-engineering skills in languages such as Python, C#, Java, or C++, with a record of shipping reliable cloud services and developer-facing platforms.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, reliability, and responsible-AI principles into architecture, delivery, and engineering practices.

• Own execution excellence and engineering throughput by translating the team leader’s vision into clear engineering priorities and executable plans.
• Instrument the end-to-end engineering system to identify constraints in planning, design, implementation, review, evaluation, deployment, and operations.
• Redesign the software-development lifecycle around AI-assisted and agentic workflows for discovery, design, coding, testing, evaluation, security review, documentation, incident response, and service operations.
• Work alongside engineers on high-leverage problems, prototype AI-native workflows, and diagnose systemic failures.
• Partner with product, customer, and field teams to break strategic priorities into thin, testable increments that produce early evidence and shorten time to customer value.

• 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.