Microsoft Senior Software Engineer, Exploration (CoreAI)

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Job Details

Posted date: May 27, 2025

Category: Software Engineering

Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations

Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 50% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

The Core AI team is dedicated to empowering every developer to shape the future with AI. This involves creating tools, platforms, and workflows that redefine software development and enable dynamic, AI driven applications.

This opportunity is on the Exploration team within Core AI focused not only on generating innovative ideas in the AI space and then applying them to developer processes and tools, but also focused on on generating innovative ideas from scratch. We actively engage in brainstorming and conceptualizing new disruptive possibilities while pulling together related product and research efforts across the company, the industry (competition and startups), the open-source community, and the research world academia to build great products. We work closely with contributors and leaders from relevant product and research teams to educate our point of view on issues and opportunities, collaboratively define concrete exploration plans, and bring the best ideas—whether developed internally or externally—to life as transformative products.

We are looking for a software engineer that is passionate about AI, new technology, writing code, understanding and leveraging AI foundation and distilled models, and moving ideas from wonder to results. This is an opportunity to be part of a great team that has market changing ideas and wants to help transform those ideas into reality.

We are looking for a software engineer that is passionate about AI, new technology, writing code, understanding and leveraging AI foundation and distilled models, and moving ideas from wonder to results. This is an opportunity to be part of a great team that has market changing ideas and wants to help transform those ideas into reality.



Qualifications

Required Qualifications

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.Developed software on a cloud using at least two of C#, Python, SQL, C/C++, Java.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building applications that use AI modelsExperience training distilled modelsTechnical expertise with distributed systems, CNCF (K8s, Prometheus, Flux, Helm), relational and NoSQL data stores, CI/CD, and Containers & Microservices Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft posts positions for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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