The Microsoft AI Frameworks team is seeking Senior and Principal Software Engineers to enhance AI models' performance and reliability at cloud scale. This role involves collaborating with model developers, researchers, and hardware teams to improve deployment efficiency and reduce hardware footprint. Successful candidates will tackle complex systems problems and contribute to the design and delivery of impactful solutions. The position emphasizes hands-on contributions and leadership in technical direction.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C++ or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

• Design, implement, test, and operate production-quality components across AI frameworks, runtimes, benchmarking systems, performance tooling, and service integrations.
• Benchmark, profile, debug, and optimize large language model training and inference workloads across GPUs and Microsoft hardware.
• Build automation and observability that detect regressions, improve reproducibility, surface actionable insights, and accelerate model and hardware onboarding.
• Drive scoped projects from problem definition through deployment, balancing delivery speed, maintainability, reliability, and measurable customer or capacity impact.
• Partner with researchers, model teams, infrastructure owners, and hardware vendors to diagnose cross-stack issues and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, engineering standards, operational health, and mentoring of other engineers.

• 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.