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Oct 17 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.   The Purview Data Governance team’s mission is to deliver a market leading solution for enterprise data management, discovery, understanding, and access. The customer personas served by Purview Data Governance include the enterprise data office, enterprise-wide data owners and data stewards, and enterprise-wide data consumers across all organizational functions. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to join us in our mission of creating a cutting-edge cloud service and AI (Artificial Intelligence) based enterprise data governance solution and practices for our customers.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Drives a customer-first, live site-first, design-first, and agile team culture to develop, secure and operate cloud services at high scale, throughput, and resilience. Always lead and model a one team and one product mindset. Provide hands-on leadership and coaching for a growing team of full stack software engineers; create clarity, communicate teams' vision, strategy and progress to peers, partners and senior leaders; provide guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices and trainings, reenforce team culture with emphasis on customer focus and engineering agility, removing barriers and enabling the team to be productive. Effectively lead and collaborate on team-wide and crew specific design and architectural reviews, planning and execution processes, creating robust engineering plans. Make timely decisions to meet functional, security, reliability, quality and shipping goals. Consistently model, coach and care for all team members to help them achieve the most in their careers. Lead the continuous improvement of engineering and quality practices. Work across business groups to ensure the long-term integrity of a product area.   Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Software Engineer: Systems Intern Opportunities for University Students, Redmond
Redmond, WA Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead .       As a Software Engineering Intern on Sys tems , you will work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative systems software contributing to Operating Systems, low level systems software, and firmware . You will apply your passion for customers and product quality as you  provide  technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers. You will learn and adopt relevant  new technologies , tools, methods, and processes to  leverage  in your solutions. You will also contri bute to the foundational layers of software at Microsoft, ranging from hardware accelerators like Azure Boost to Windows OS and Azure Linux.  This opportunity will enable you to advance your career by designing, developing, and testing next-generation software that will empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.      At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.     Please note this application is only for internships based in our Redmond, Washington office. For internships in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site .  Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.      Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.    Understands and applies Microsoft’s responsible AI practices to ensure the systems you work on meet our commitments to our customers.   Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.      Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.      Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.    Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.   
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Functions team to design, build and ship the next set of features and tools that will define how cloud-native applications are built. This is a unique opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems and implement initiatives that are key to Microsoft's cloud strategy.   In this role, you will help to build and deliver the next set of services, features, and developer tools that will define how applications are developed and hosted on Azure. You'll be working on both open source and platform components supporting the non-dotnet programming languages. This is a unique opportunity to work on large scale distributed systems and implement initiatives that are key to Microsoft's cloud strategy.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Influence the product by being a customer advocate and adding your input to features  Make important decisions on architecture  Promote better practices for the team and lead by example Utilize new technologies  Develop features end-to-end while ensuring quality and maintainability Optimize performance and scale  Lead or influence initiatives in a highly collaborative team environment Mentor other engineers and contribute to their growth Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments.  Other Embody our  Culture   &   Values  
Oct 17 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Research Scientist II
Redmond, WA $153,550 The Data and Artificial Intelligence team in Microsoft’s Developer Division is working on the future of AI for Developers! We are a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers and engineers with passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world. We have released AI for code advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio and other Microsoft Copilots.   We are seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Research Scientist II to work on groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams and Github. You will have an opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models, and opportunities to both apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to work closely with several developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate and improve your AI projects on a large scale.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Initiate and advance research to advance state-of-the-art in AI for Software Engineering Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering Collaborate with world renowned experts in programming tools and developer tools to integrate AI across software development stack for Copilot Build and manage large-scale AI experiments and models. Other Embody our  Culture   &   Values  
Oct 17 Finance
Senior Finance Manager - Strategic Investments
Redmond, WA $147,550 Global Treasury & Financial Services (GTFS) is a global team that supports the digital transformation journey of Microsoft’s customers, partners & vendors by providing competitive credit and payment solutions to support revenue growth while managing credit risk. We are a compliance first organization with customer obsession and deal economics focus.       The Global Collections & Cash Management team is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join the team. If you're a highly motivated, analytical, results-driven finance professional with great communication , intellectual curiosity, and a passion for finance and markets this is the job for you. This position is a highly visible and impactful role that offers the opportunity to stretch your skills at the highest levels of the company.      Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.      The S enior Finance Manager will partner across the broader GTFS organization. Cross organizational stakeholders will include M12 (Microsoft’s captive venture firm), Corporate Development, Central Finance Team (CFT), Treasury Controllers Group (TCG), Tax, Legal, as well as interfacing frequently with financial firms for trading, strategy, and expertise .         Strategic Investment portfolio (M12 and Corporate Development) end-to-end operational management including booking, documentation, reporting, hedging, monetization, and disposition    Business partner engagement between Tax, TCG, Corporate External Legal Affairs (CELA), Treasury Operations and the business related to strategic investments   Close engagement with internal/external counsel, M12/Corporate Development portfolio managers and investment companies to support interpretation of investment terms and implications        Lead execution and coordination of approvals to hedge or dispose of strategic investments   Lead surveillance of new investment rounds and potential upcoming IPOs that could affect existing investment valuations    Monthly and quarterly reporting of investment positions and related gains/losses for Other Income and Expense    Ownership and project management of ad-hoc projects within the Strategic Investments space and GTFS   Manage the ongoing hedging requirements of the Company’s Non qualifed Deferred Compensations Plan   Participate in GTFS global macro coverage supporting investment process and internal stakeholders across the Company  
Oct 17 Supply Chain
Senior Supply Chain Analyst
Atlanta, Georgia $167,100 Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180+ million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure – CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.   Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.   Within CO+I, the Strategic Category Management Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing Microsoft Cloud for our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill a critical role of Senior Supply Chain Analyst .   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. ”   This role is in one of our hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.    Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.    This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 50% General Category Vision, Strategy, and Enablement : Manages the development and execution of multi-year sourcing strategies based on business intelligence, Microsoft policies, and Microsoft-wide cross-functional buy-in from stakeholders. Utilize available tools and create new tools as needed to enable the team to use in this regard. Strategic Sourcing Alignment : Maintains strategic alignment with sourcing execution, Construction, Engineering, Cost, Legal, Risk, Finance, Safety, and other teams to continuously re-evaluate and improve Microsoft procurement. Leverages data to anticipate and mitigate risk and negative business impacts by ensuring compliance with agreed-upon terms, communicating issues, and driving the execution of contingency plans cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally as needed. Long Range Planning & Research: Manages the long-range planning for new countries and metros to make sure adequate information is available for the supply chain. This includes conducting research to ensure risks can be mitigates in advance of placing any orders. Continuous Improvement : always seek ways to streamline, automate, and simplify processes. This will include deployment of tools, proficiency in data analytics, and ability to work with IT groups to provide system requirements. Othe r: Embody our culture and values  
Oct 17 Business Development & Ventures
Director Strategic Planning, Studios Franchise Development
Redmond, WA $199,050 At Microsoft, our goal is to enable every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more. In the Game Content and Studios division, we support this mission by bringing the joy and community of gaming to everyone. We are responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest gaming franchises in history: Age of Empires, Call of Duty, Candy Crush, DOOM, Fallout, Forza, Gears of War, Halo, Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls, World of Warcraft, and more. We believe that play is the thing that unites everyone, because when everyone plays, we all win. Come be a part of this amazing team!   The Director Strategic Planning, Studios Franchise Development has a passion for and understanding of gaming and entertainment spaces. They will possess franchise business experience and will be equally at home developing strategic industry solutions as they will be creating operational solutions with influential partners and game studios leaders. This person will have the ability to conduct, analyze market research and formulate solutions for franchise expansion and growth. Success in this role will require the development of strong working relationships across our studio leadership team and our partner teams across Microsoft Gaming.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Key Responsibilities:   Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance the growth and development of our studios' franchises beyond their game .   Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align franchise strategies with overall business objectives .   Conduct market research and analysis to identify opportunities for franchise expansion and growth.   Monitor and evaluate the performance of franchise initiatives and make recommendations for improvements.   Provide strategic guidance and support to studio leadership teams.   Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders drive franchise success.   Improve consumer engagement and broaden target audiences through data-driven repositioning, branding, product plans, and communication strategies. Embody our  Culture   &   Values  
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700   The Developer Productivity Services team delivers fast growing Azure services that help drive enterprises to move to the cloud by providing streamlined, self-service, and cost optimized solutions. Azure DevTest Labs is one of the products that our team has been working on to transform the dev/ test experience for developers.       We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take the next step in our evolution by delivering new, innovative experiences that deliver high quality test environments to developers . We are looking for someone with a passion for large-scale distributed services and a willing ness to look for creative ways to solve customer problems. You can find out more about Azure DevTest Labs at DevTest La b s | Microsoft Azure .     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.     Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.   Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.    System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.   Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.   Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.   Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.     Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.    Other Embody our  Culture   &   Values  
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior CAD Security Software Developer
Raleigh, North Carolina $183,700 The Microsoft Silicon Engineering and Solutions Team is seeking a Senior CAD Security Software Developer  to join our c entral s oftware team . This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, s oftware tools , and automation to support silicon design areas such as RTL & VIP Design, Design Verification, Validation, DFT, Emulation , PD Handoff and IP integration. This role supports software security efforts within the team and brings expertise in application security engineering as well as general software engineering best practices to existing and new d esigns .      Relocation assistance is availlable for this role within the US. Develop, enhance, and integrate flows and automation for organization-wide use.   Implement software best practices within the Computer Aided Design (CAD) Software team. Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon group to implement secure software solutions. Mentor team members and summer interns.   Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking experienced Platform Engineers to help build the next wave of capabilities for Copilot on Windows . We’re looking for someone who possesses technical prowess, a methodical approach to problem-solving and proficiency in backend technologies . The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. The Windows Copilot team is responsible for creating experiences that demonstrate the power Copilot can bring to Windows, large screens and productivity scenarios. In this role you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge solutions while collaborating with Platform, Product Management, Design and Research teams.        Our newly formed organization, MAI, is dedicated to advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. The team  is responsible for  Copilot, Bing, Edge, and generative AI research.  Come be  a part of the team shaping the future personal computing.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.         By applying to this U.S. Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the Seattle area and in office 3 days a week.   Design and d evelopment secure and performant Platform services that support Copilot experiences on Windows.   Work collaboratively with p latform, infrastructure, application engineers and r esearchers to build next generation AI products and services.    Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.     Overcome obstacles to deliver work quickly and iteratively to users   Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.    Embody our   Culture   and   Values .     
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Windows Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking an experienced Windows Engineer to help build the next wave of capabilities for Copilot on Windows . We’re looking for someone who possesses technical prowess, a methodical approach to problem-solving and proficiency in client technologies . The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. The Windows Copilot team is responsible for creating experiences that demonstrate the power Copilot can bring to Windows, large screens and productivity scenarios. In this role you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge solutions while collaborating with Platform, Product Management, Design and Research teams.        Our newly formed organization, MAI, is dedicated to advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. The team  is responsible for  Copilot, Bing, Edge, and generative AI research.  Come be  a part of the team shaping the future personal computing.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.         By applying to this U.S. Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the Seattle area and in office 3 days a week .   Design and d evelop Windows client applications and components to support Copilot experiences on Windows.   Work collaboratively with p latform, infrastructure, application engineers and r esearchers to build next generation AI products and services.    Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.     Overcome obstacles to deliver work quickly and iteratively to users   Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.    Embody our   Culture   and   Values .     
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad —to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits.       Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking an Engineering Manager to help build the next wave of capabilities for Copilot on Windows . We’re looking for someone who possesses technical prowess, a methodical approach to problem-solving and proficiency in client and service technologies . The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. The Windows Copilot team is responsible for creating experiences that demonstrate the power Copilot can bring to Windows, large screens and productivity scenarios. In this role you will play a critical role leading work designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge solutions while collaborating with Platform, Product Management, Design and Research teams.        Our newly formed organization, MAI, is dedicated to advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. The team  is responsible for  Copilot, Bing, Edge, and generative AI research.  Come be  a part of the team shaping the future personal computing.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.         By applying to this U.S. Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the Seattle area and in office 3 days a week   Lead a full stack team to d esign and d evelop Platform services and Windows client applications to support Copilot experiences on Windows.   Work collaboratively with p latform, infrastructure, application engineers and r esearchers to build next generation AI products and services.    Guide your team while assum ing accountability to product outcomes . Find creative solutions to obstacles and actively partner across the broader organization to ensure product success.   Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.     Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.    Embody our   Culture   and   Values .     
Oct 17 Security Engineering
Senior Technical Program Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 EPSF (Edge + Platform Security Fundamentals) team looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to help drive a customer-obsessed engineering teams. EPSF team is responsible for ensuring development of secure products and services across Microsoft businesses. EPSF team builds scalable products and solutions that enable partner teams to deliver secure products and services to Microsoft customers. In this role, you will help product teams secure platforms and services built at Microsoft. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will have a can-do attitude, exemplary communication skills and a solid understand of security fundamentals.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Drive cross-division alignment among product teams to improve security posture of platform and services. Effectively communicate the security strategy with partners in Microsoft. Ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity for boarder organization. 'Familiarity with security technologies like static and dynamic analysis
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 The One Engineering System team inside Microsoft's Cloud and Artificial Intelligence division is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work with us on the next generation of developer services and tools.   With the developer tools & services market quickly growing and evolving, we have a unique opportunity to help shape internal engineering practices at Microsoft and the broader industry. Our large-scale distributed services for build and test are at the center of Microsoft developers’ workflows and comprise a large part of Microsoft’s internal One Engineering System.   The primary responsibilities of this role are to design and code new software and services to be used by tens of thousands of Microsoft’s engineers and the broader DevOps market. You will work extensively on building developer services that are loved and relied upon.   We strive to live in a world where everyone on the team has an equal voice, is empowered to innovate and can make a big impact. While there are many tools in the toolbox, we are passionate about Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Culture of Experimentation and Lean Agile as a way of operating.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.     Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code securely to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., other developers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the security, availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II - Windows Servicing and Delivery
Redmond, WA $153,550 We are the Shell team in Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. The delivery of new innovations and updates to our customers is at the core of WSD’s mission to keep Microsoft customers protected and productive.   WSD Shell team orchestrates the release of exciting new features and guards the quality of the user experience in existing and future versions of Windows to our consumer, enterprise and Microsoft Cloud customers.   As an experienced Software Engineer II - Windows Servicing and Delivery  in WSD Shell team, you will collaborate closely with product teams and fellow engineers to deliver smooth and reliable software updates, patches, and feature releases for Windows operating system. You will play a critical role in the ongoing development, deployment, and maintenance of Windows updates, ensuring millions of users worldwide receive high-quality, secure, and dependable updates to their operating systems. This position offers a unique opportunity to deepen your business acumen, enhance your technical skills, and accelerate your career growth.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices. Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members and drives coordination. Communicates across teams and resolves conflicts between teams. Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).
Oct 17 Product Management
Senior Product Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 The Exchange Programmability team is integral to the Microsoft 365 application ecosystem. Our customers and partners develop solutions utilizing data and services within the largest platform of its kind globally, leveraging our APIs and interfaces for this purpose.       This is a terrific opportunity if you are excited to work on developer platforms and with teams across Microsoft . You will drive planning and solv ing challenges for a large-scale service that is critical to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft's success. Do this job well and you will directly impact the growth of Microsoft 365, develop an extensive network within the company and build a foundation to accelerate your career.      We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to collaborate with developers, customers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The role involves assisting in the migration of Exchange Web Services applications to Microsoft Graph, identifying gaps in API capabilities, and developing necessary documentation or guidance. Additionally, the individual will produce code samples, documentation, and guidance based on these learnings to support customers.     The M365 Core Group is responsible for constructing the infrastructure, platforms, AI, and communications backbone for Microsoft 365. Our mission is to build a trusted platform that enables both us and our third-party partners to create productivity experiences centered on individuals and groups. We achieve this by integrating the comprehensive data assets of our customers with personalized user information, thus creating a compliant and agile platform that democratizes the development of intelligent M365 applications.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Collaborating with developers migrating applications .     Creating sample scripts/code that can be used by other developers for their applications.   Researching and gathering information from subject matter experts and other sources.   Writing, editing, and organizing technical content.   Using graphics, diagrams, and other visual aids to enhance the clarity of the documentation.  
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO&I) group is looking for a Software Engineer II to design and develop software / hardware solutions to automate the measurement and validation of data components and interconnected systems within a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters. The hardware and software we develop enables teams across Microsoft to collect and analyze data center-wide high-speed diagnostic measurements. This allows them to make critical decisions about the performance and health of our data center.  Our infrastructure supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.  In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Design and develop Azure based pipelines for aggregating, analyzing, and storing measurement and test data Manage engineering projects and features from the prototype to production Contribute to and advance application frameworks, design patterns, and engineering systems Deliver well-tested features across many different services and platforms   Manipulate, collate, and analyze complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems   Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables   Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth   Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers  
Oct 17 Hardware Engineering
Principal Circuit Design Engineer
Austin, Texas $215,800 Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.     As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Semi and Custom IP team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for a Principal Circuit Design Engineer to design and build customer-focused solutions, discover insights and utilize industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.     Collaborate with SoC designers to develop Memory SRAM and Register file solutions to difficult PPA challenges   Work with internal and external process technology teams to understand and exploit advanced process DTCO knobs   Serve as technical lead to a team of circuit and mask layout engineers   Devise methodologies for statistical analysis and timing/power/EMIR characterization   Work alongside IP and SoC program management to develop milestone schedules and ensure proper delivery   Direct IP collateral quality assurance checking   Develop IP and post-silicon characterization plans for inclusion on advanced process technology testchips   Develop scripting automation for flows   Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Are you passionate about innovating and tackling challenging research problems at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and optimization? If so, this position is perfect for you!   Our group, Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO) at Microsoft Research Redmond, works on fundamental and practical aspects of data-driven optimization. Examples include scaling huge optimization problems via ML, leveraging ML predictions for real-time control and using Large Language Models (LLMs) for algorithm design and interactive decision-making (e.g., for supply chain management and cloud resource allocation).   Joining MLO as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer provides a unique opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects, have real impact on the computer industry and shape the future of technology. As a group of researchers and research engineers with diverse skillsets, spanning machine learning, operations research, algorithms and systems, we pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive culture where all voices are heard and respected. We are committed to supporting and encouraging every team member in their career aspirations.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. You will design, develop and implement novel algorithmic solutions in collaboration with other researchers, engineers, and product groups.   You will be expected to create innovative research prototypes and help build production systems and services. You will be a part of research breakthroughs in the intersection of machine learning and optimization and will be given an opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide.   Embody our culture and values .
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II - Mixed Reality
Redmond, WA $153,550 In   Mixed Reality , we are building the next generation of devices and infrastructure for training and in-field deployment of in-field scenarios like project IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System.) To get there, we’re incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies from sensors, computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, AI, and more. We’re a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across Holographic devices.       As a Software Engineer II - Mixed Reality  you will work on the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). The United States Army has contracted Microsoft to prototype hardware, software, and cloud solutions for IVAS. The program leverages technology from HoloLens to design a heads-up display that pushes the boundaries of mixed reality devices. You will be responsible for developing software for the core experience and extensibility that powers these devices.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.  Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.  Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.   Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.  Adhere to modern DevOps engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines. 
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II - Computer Vision
Redmond, WA $153,550 In   Mixed Reality , we are building the next generation of devices and infrastructure for training and in-field deployment of in-field scenarios like project IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System.) To get there, we are incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies from sensors, computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, AI, and more. We are a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across Holographic devices.    The Mixed Reality HUD Sensors team is looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer II - Computer Vision with a deep knowledge of computer vision and C++. This individual will require solid software development skills to implement and support the sensors processing pipeline for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) project. The United States Army has contracted Microsoft to build hardware and software leveraging the technology from Hololens. Our team is responsible for the algorithms and signal processing to bring data from specialized sensors to the displays.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Work with stakeholders to gather and analyze features, document specifications, and develop software solutions to meet customer requirements for existing and future products.  Investigate issues, develop, integrate and validate improvements to current product.  Develop efficient and robust system software for computer vision systems.  Conduct post-implementation validation of software and address any defects identified during field testing.  Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to identify and resolve problems. 
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Software Development Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft Surface Devices is on a mission to deliver iconic end-to-end products across hardware, software, and services that people trust and rely on every day. Central to this mission is ensuring the security and integrity of our devices, especially in the development of embedded firmware. As we strive to build desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want, security is paramount. Developing these new devices and associated experiences requires close collaboration between hardware engineers, software engineers, designers, and manufacturing partners, all with a shared focus on creating industry-defining secure solutions. Our commitment to security and our passion for enabling everyone to do and be their best is reflected in our devices, ensuring that they are not only innovative but also safe and reliable.    We are seeking a talented Senior Software Development Engineer  with a background in embedded firmware and security. This includes working with Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV), Microcontroller suppliers, and industry partners on topics related to system design and firmware implementation. This position will be responsible for executing on a cutting-edge roadmap using modern programming practices and languages to ensure the quality and stability of firmware deliverables on Surface Devices, as well as partnering closely with system architects, IHVs, and Windows OS teams to deliver an end-to-end optimized firmware platform with security as the foundation.    Come join us as we scale up our organization to meet the challenges of creating new and innovative experiences and delivering devices that people love and trust.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Design, implement, test and support systems-level firmware on modern Windows-based devices and accessories.  Drive performance, stability and feature enhancements for the device level experiences aligned with Windows and Devices roadmaps. Collaborate with teams across Microsoft and the Windows Ecosystem to bring up new hardware designs.   Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $128,250 Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.       Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.   The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users .    At Microsoft, we can offer you a strong team , exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users .    The right candidate for this job (is):   Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services;   Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them;   Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes;   Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment;   Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams;   Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design, develop, and deliver the required software engineering to serve and protect O365 government clouds.   Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.   Proactively identify and reduce issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions.   Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases.   Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability.   Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them.  
Oct 17 Supply Chain
Category and Strategic Sourcing Manager - Construction Services
Redmond, WA $167,100 Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud.  We are responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.   Within CO+I, the strategic Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. Furthermore, we support the Operations team that manages and runs the cloud assets. We are looking to fill a critical role of Category and Strategic Sourcing Manager - Construction Services to lead the sourcing of construction services in support of our build program across the AMER region.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.   This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.    Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.    This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to ( 50)% .        Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Sourcing Defines, maintains, and executes on sourcing strategies for one or more complex projects and/or purchasing opportunities to ensure optimal cost and sufficient continuity of supply and/or service, collects relevant internal and industry data to understand business requirements, benchmarks data against relevant markets, and shares industry and category expertise across stakeholder teams to develop and execute sourcing strategies. Integrates business specifications for complex purchasing areas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]), coordinates supplier performance reviews, and drives corrective actions. Actively partners with suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements. Manages contract and price negotiation activities for a single purchasing category cross-functionally and ensures that both price and capacity needs are met while also reflecting Microsoft's cross functional engagements with suppliers. Identifies cost reduction opportunities and works closely with suppliers to drive cost competitiveness.   Compliance Applies an end-to-end understanding of the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers to drive business impact by influencing senior managers cross-functionally, or cross-regionally to apply market intelligence and adopt practices that enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of delivery. Manages supplier scorecard process, leads strategic business reviews, educates stakeholders on policy compliance, analyzes root causes of issues, and influences change internally and/or externally to address issues. Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and manages the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Identifies opportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements. Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables, and ensures Procurement stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreement (SLA) and/or defined milestones and deliverables terms. Communicates delay to Procurement stakeholders, and independently proposes and executes contingency measures.   Procurement and Contracts Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for complex purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements. Manages the resolution of escalated pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel. Executes contracts and complies with established control processes to ensure delivery and execution on contracts in alignment with business requirements. Identifies risks and roadblocks to contract execution and drives action internally and/or externally to resolve and/or escalate, as appropriate. Monitors the impact of change orders to the underlying business case, and partners cross-functionally to adjust impact models. Develops coherent sourcing strategies for early enabling works scopes across multiple geographies in AMER, building deep market knowledge through a network of sources in the industry. Accountable to lead engagement with potential supply chain and lead the onboarding process in collaboration with our partner teams in Land Development, Engineering and Construction.     Stakeholder Collaboration Develops pricing and negotiation strategies for one or more complex purchasing categories, ensures that strategies clearly articulate the tradeoffs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains senior executive support for strategies both internally and externally. Identifies negotiation setbacks and takes action to mitigate contract disagreements. Drives early business engagements for complex business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, optimal sourcing spend, and priorities. Shares expertise in advising cross-functional teams on sourcing decisions. Collaborates with suppliers, serves as contact point between suppliers and multiple Microsoft accounts across one or more complex purchasing categories, developing and executing supplier account plans detailing priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period. Other Embody our culture and values  
Oct 17 Program Management
Principal Technical Program Manager, Supply Chain
Redmond, WA $215,800 In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than one hundred datacenters and one million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts, who work tirelessly to support digital services for more than one billion customers and twenty million businesses in over ninety countries worldwide.   Within CO+I, the Core Datacenter Services (CDS) team is responsible for delivering improving the overall availability and efficiency for Microsoft’s cloud business. We have multiple teams focused on both Microsoft and lessor datacenter performance and all aspects of datacenter utilization effectiveness that includes power, water and labor. We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager, Supply Chain to support the Supply Chain program across datacenters globally.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.  Provide expert guidance when working with Software and Hardware Engineering to design crucial technical solutions across feature areas. You’ll also give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks. Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for crucial cross-functional projects. You’ll coordinate, ensure alignment, and gain buy-in across the business. Deliver on the multi-year roadmap for multiple feature groups across divisions, lead tracking of project schedules, oversee development of staging and implementation plans, and oversee governance programs. Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing text cases from scratch. Provide expertise needed for departments to collect performance metrics, oversee customer support, and define, lead, and mentor others in direct customer engagements.
Oct 17 Supply Chain
Senior Director, Datacenter Supply Chain Planning
Redmond, WA $214,300 In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than one hundred datacenters and one million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts, who work tirelessly to support digital services for more than one billion customers and twenty million businesses in over ninety countries worldwide.   Within CO+I, the Core Datacenter Services (CDS) team is responsible for delivering improving the overall availability and efficiency for Microsoft’s cloud business. We have multiple teams focused on both Microsoft and lessor datacenter performance and all aspects of datacenter utilization effectiveness that includes power, water and labor. We are seeking a Senior Director of Datacenter Supply Chain Planning to create the strategy and vision for very complex supply plans. This role will provide the vision and strategy for determining the best operational model for optimizing service levels, costs, and inventory positioning. You’ll also drive the mid- to long-term strategy for moving materials, build, and shipments out of the factory.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.  Provide leadership for essential analyses, and determine which “what-if” scenarios impact supply and demand management. Provide the vision for the planning of raw materials, you will make key decisions to transition from old to new products while avoiding waste. Create the strategy for the obsolescence of goods, and inform the team on any changes in demand build before issues occur. Provide industry insights and direction regarding how to use tools for managing supply and driving improvements, leveraging summaries of complex systems to simplify supply chains and leading other transformational process improvements. Ensure the team has access to essential data sources to analyze supply, oversee the use of dashboards for presenting analysis, and create the vision for overall data management. Work closely with suppliers, you will remove obstacles and provide resources to create a favorable supply chain, review staffing, and set overall expectations for suppliers. Serve as a key point of contact between teams for executive leaders while communicating priorities, driving clarity, and making and promoting recommendations for change.
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Our Web Experiences Team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer focused on Big Data Storage and Processing. This role involves leading the development of scalable, robust data platforms that support critical business functions such as Search, Ads, and Recommendation services. Our team is responsible for building large-scale systems that operate across millions of cores and handle massive data volumes in a multi-tenant environment.     As a Principal Software Engineer, you will spearhead projects that integrate advanced distributed systems using technologies such as Spark, HDFS, and Kafka. Your expertise in distributed computing systems will be pivotal as you enhance the architecture and efficiency of one of the world's most extensive distributed systems. You will lead efforts to optimize data storage, improve computational efficiencies, and ensure strict SLAs are met for both offline workloads and online scenarios.     You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the open-source community, driving innovations and laying the groundwork for the next generation of data platforms. Your role will significantly influence the strategic direction and continued success of our organization, making it an ideal position for someone passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems at web scale.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Architect, design, and implement high-performance solutions to enhance our offline processing infrastructure.    Technically lead the development and scaling of our distributed services, ensuring robustness, performance, and reliability.    Collaborate with various teams to transform user requirements into actionable designs and systems.    Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.    Engage in the full software development lifecycle from conception to deployment, ensuring solutions meet high standards of quality and performance.    Stay abreast of industry trends and apply best practices in software development and new technologies to drive improvements.   
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineering Lead
Redmond, WA $215,800 On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.   The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favorite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox.     Our team is looking for a Principal Software Engineering Lead for our Backend Services team that enables creators to build multiplayer games .  This team plays a pivotal role in building, maintaining , and operating multiplayer services for Xbox, across Console, PC and Cloud. We are looking for a leader who will drive innovation and execution that will delight our game creators.   As team leader, you will manage a creative group of 6-8 software engineers, building a broad set of highly scalable distributed services, which serve our diverse set of game creators across multiple geographical regions. You will spend about 60% of your time developing, growing, and directing engineers to reach higher potential. The balance of your time will be spent coding, driving architecture, innovation, design, and development of highly scalable intelligent services within the team, and collaborating with our partners teams.   You will plan, design, build, test, debug, and ship business critical software services.   You will collaborate with and drive positive relationships with technology partners.   You will have the opportunity to solve complex problems that allow for innovative features across multiple devices and services.   You will be a role model and active participant in a community of creativity, inclusion, and respect.   You will be part of a world-class engineering team dedicated to the delivery of available and reliable 24x7 services.
Oct 17 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Data Scientist
Redmond, WA $153,550 It’s an exciting time to join Microsoft ! The Office of the Chief Economist works across the company to pursue commercial value using economic and data-driven thinking. Some examples of our work include algorithms that grow Microsoft’s cloud revenue as well as its resource efficiency , some of the first-ever studies of how AI change s the way that people work , and business model analytics for our software licensing models .   We are looking for a Data Scientist with broad technical skills, business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. You will work alongside world-class colleagues on high-visibility projects answering some of Microsoft’s most pressing challenges. You will work directly with business partners to identify business opportunities, you will discover enormous new datasets for analysis, and you will sleuth the data and its business implications. You will use statistics and machine learning to deliver statistically sound causal insights to business leaders.   Successful candidates  can dive deep into sophisticated modeling approache s when needed; but more importantly, they know when a simple and pragmatic solution will do just as well. They know how to tell good stories through data , how to visualize, and how to use many fast iterations in the face of ambiguous problems. Great candidates thrive in an environment that promotes learning through diverse projects.   Our team values collaboration, craftsmanship, and continuous learning. Y ou will be able to shape and grow a positive and productive data engineering culture.  Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We value a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role. Develop a deep understanding of modern and legacy data systems and build data pipelines that enable experimentation and data analysis at scale. Understand business needs and develop appropriate data analyses to meet those needs ranging from exploratory data analysis, inference, and experimentation. Investigate data quality issues that threaten to undermine econometrically sound analysis by identifying clear data requirements. Together with your team, interpret and present findings to stakeholders. Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Senior Site Reliability Engineer CTJ - Top Secret
Redmond, WA $183,700 Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings. Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance. The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users. At Microsoft, we can offer you a exciting team , exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.   The right candidate for this job (is):   Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services. Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them. Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes. Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms -up, fast-paced, highly technical environment. Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams. Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. You develop, test, and implement changes to optimize code and improve platforms. You leverage end-to-end technical expertise and telemetry analysis to identify patterns and opportunities to implement configuration and data changes. You review the effect of changes to documents and share development insights within your team. You drive code/design reviews, host regular meetings, and participate in on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles. In addition, you respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations and share details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and regular review meetings. Embody our   Culture    &    Values
Oct 17 Marketing
​​​Senior Product Marketing Manager, CSP Growth Marketing​​ for Copilot
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $161,500 If you want to play a role in one of the world’s fastest growing cloud businesses, now is your chance to join the Microsoft Modern Work and Business Applications Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Growth Marketing team .  Microsoft 365 Copilot is a key component to Microsoft’s commercial AI strategy , enabling customers to fuel business growth and improve employee productivity.  We’re looking for a high-impact, high energy marketing professional to drive the Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption strategy and product-led growth initiatives for the CSP channel . This is a fast-paced, exciting role where there is always a new challenge. It’s a highly visible role in a space that requires the rapid development of new emerging products.   To be successful, as a ​​​ Senior Product Marketing Manager, CSP Growth Marketing​​ for Copilot , you should be able to define and execute successful partner marketing strategies and plans based on a solid understanding of product capabilities, product marketing goals, and CSP channel dynamics .  You will be responsible for defining the go-to-market (GTM) strategy to drive adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Lighthouse . This will require the formulation of highly effective CSP go-to-market plans to drive growth and customer success across SMB and SMC-C . You will need to collaborate with a broad set of cross-functional teams, including Product Marketing Managers (PMM), Finance, sales and engineering .   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Develop and implement effective go-to-market plans that scale to thousands of partners. Lead the CSP adoption and change management strategy for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Drive product strategy for Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and our signal-based GTM investments. Represent the voice of the CSP to our PMM and Product Engineering teams. Show the ability to quickly understand and adapt to new products in a constantly evolving area. Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills. Embody our culture and values
Oct 17 Supply Chain
Sr. Manager – Production Planning
Atlanta, Georgia $167,100 The CO+I Supply Chain Planning & Analytics team is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Production Planning with a passion for data, analytics, process improvements, helping others, technology, and operations. You would join a team that works to deliver and evolve a holistic Data Center performance management platform for CO+I leadership to help the organization make better business decisions.     The successful candidate will be a self-starter with proven skills in driving key initiatives with results through engagement with external and internal partners and have a solid business acumen. The candidate will be a problem solver and be resourceful, able to drive change, creative and willing to work with and through others to be successful. Effective executive verbal and written communications skills and analytical thinking are necessary for driving a high level of impact.     In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.     Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.     This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to (50 )% .     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Serve as a key contact for production planning and act as liaiso n internally within Global Supply Chain with partners such as Execution and Category team, as well as externally to other EPC stakeholders to drive business process alignment.     Support team initiatives, included but not limited to data visualization efforts, requirements to digital transformation technology and tools, organizational partnerships, and change management initiatives.    Uses status reports, executive business reviews, and storytelling to communicate data findings and improvement opportunities to stakeholders.   Build equipment production plans in collaboration with organizational partners to support customer demand through on-time datacenter delivery.   Critically review new supply scenarios to identify potential incidents/risks and their mitigation .     Analyzes supplier feedback and monitors key performance indicators to improve the customer experience, increase return on investment, and identify new opportunities.    Embody our   Culture  and  Values .
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.   Would you like to spend your days meaningfully impacting society? Are you an engineer with a deep understanding of the Windows operating system? Is your copy of Windows Internals front and center on your bookshelf?  Do you thrive on developing architectural solutions from the ground up, focusing on fundamentals such as performance, reliability, and extensibility?      Become an integral member of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) team, dedicated to protecting consumers and enterprises alike from cyber-attacks. Our mission is to safeguard every user with innovative proactive protection, detection, and response technologies, aiming to stay ahead of malicious actors and anticipating the threats of the future.        We are looking for a highly driven and motivated Principal Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of endpoint protection, optimizing for the latest silicon innovations and Windows OS enhancements.  This includes championing fundamentals such as performance and reliability, scaling to platforms big and small, and driving foundational changes throughout the entire Defender stack.      This position provides the potential for tremendous personal and career growth across many dimensions.  You’ll have the opportunity to work across divisional boundaries and develop a broad understanding of Microsoft’s business while making a meaningful impact on society.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Partner with multiple teams across Microsoft, archite cting and implementing solutions deeply integrated into the Defender stack  Execute on architecture, design, code reviews, and development   Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment   Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 17 Communications
Senior Director of Executive Communications & Speech Writing
Redmond, WA $226,950 The Microsoft Azure and Industry Marketing team is responsible for accelerating Cloud products and services across the Azure portfolio of Infrastructure, Data and AI, and Digital Applications, and also taking a One Microsoft, customer-first view of our priority industries.   We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior Director of Executive Communications & Speech Writing to provide external communications and external speechwriting support to our Chief Marketing Officer for Commercial Cloud & AI overseeing the Azure and Industry Marketing team. This role will report to the Chief of Staff and will be responsible for working across teams to develop all external communications and speeches for this executive. You should have a passion for technology and cloud services, a belief in the broader company mission, and the ability to tell a compelling and creative story.   We are looking for a dynamic individual with the experience to develop and execute an effective communications strategy that positively influences perceptions across multiple audiences and stakeholders. This is a deeply collaborative and strategic role that calls for close partnerships and the ability to orchestrate work across senior leaders on the leadership team, key stakeholders in Communications and Marketing, Public Relations (PR)/Analyst Relations (AR)/Investor Relations (IR), and Microsoft subsidiary teams around the world.   You will have significant opportunities for executive visibility, to show thought leadership, and to drive business impact. A successful candidate will be a creative storyteller, an effective speechwriter, one who is self-motivated & self-directed, able to operate in a fast-paced environment, and manage ambiguity while striving for high-quality results. The successful candidate works well in a team to drive impact quickly and operates with the highest levels of integrity and trust.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   This is the role for a communications professional with deep domain expertise demonstrated in practice and with a proven track record of impact. This is the role for someone who is grounded in a growth mindset, is open to new ideas and perspectives and has a passion for learning. Exceptional written communications skills with proven communications, high-volumn speech writing, and PR content development experience. Successful track record of delivering clear, compelling communications, and creating engaging content that breaks through with customers and achieves business results. Demonstrated ability to synthesize the complex and take multiple, complicated, disparate inputs from a variety of sources and evidence, and transform it into simple, clear, succinct, elegant, and compelling communication. Highly comfortable in a fast-paced team environment, proven capacity for multi-tasking and ability to manage multiple high-stakes deliverables and projects simultaneously, and resilient under pressure. Successful track record of building collaborative partnerships, excellent stakeholder management skills, and driving hard for results by working across teams to achieve a common goal. Executive maturity, ability to influence for impact, curiosity and self-awareness, desire to test and learn using data as a success metric, and commitment to diversity and inclusion Additionally, Collaborates across the organization to develop a comprehensive communications plan and workback schedule for external audiences that influences perceptions and drives effective actions and outcomes with our audiences, while aligning with current business priorities Effectively uses data and insights to inform and evolve storytelling across all external communications and speaking engagements Proactively engages with internal and external stakeholders to develop stories that land with diverse audiences and seek out speaking and authorship opportunities Leverages technical expertise, experience, and knowledge of successful communication campaigns to determine the appropriate formats of a given story for varied and evolving target audiences Writes speeches, blogs, LinkedIn posts and articles, press quotes, social media content, video scripts, and other talking points and relevant content Thinks beyond individual product capabilities and collaborates across teams, partnering with key stakeholders to land an aligned narrative Monitors, tracks, and analyzes the impact of messaging and storytelling, and adjusts messaging materials to achieve greater impact across all speechwriting and customer and partner meetings and engagement Develops and writes speeches, talking points, briefing materials, scripting/messaging for keynotes, presentations, media engagements, social media posts, and other presentation materials for the executive, ensuring alignment with overall communication goals and strategies Maintains an up-to-date understanding of industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies to inform speechwriting and external communications strategies Provides strategic communication counsel to senior leadership on message development, narrative frameworks, and delivery techniques Manages a speaking event calendar and owns related development of operational rhythm of business, as well as workback scheduled for speaking engagements; ensures operational rigor in our process and sufficient lead time in our preparedness approach Demonstrates ability to think and conceptualize in the digital medium to develop creative concepts for digital events and presentations, including any operational and logistical support needed Manages and evaluates incoming speaking requests to determine and manage appropriate format, content, and deliverables end-to-end with key stakeholders Measures the outcomes of engagements to evaluate impact, learn, and improve Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 17 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Now more than ever, we live in an age where AI and cloud services are empowering people around the world to achieve more. Behind these innovative services exists a critical infrastructure that is bringing them to life.   On the ObjectStore team we build the core cloud platform backing Bing and Copilot. ObjectStore has grown to be used across all of Microsoft including Copilot, Bing, Azure, Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and more. Our product is impacting individual's lives in scenarios such as web search, AI chat, friends exploring, and local deal finding.   Today ObjectStore has over 10 thousand storage tables world-wide, with 350+ partners across divisions of Microsoft. Over time, ObjectStore has matured from a low latency key-value store into a rich serving platform. It supports features such as auto scaling and healing, full text search, deep learning vector search and general computation hosting.   We learn from and compete with many popular NoSQL, Indexing and Deep-Learning serving technologies in the industry. These are the hottest domains in the modern cloud infrastructure age that are unlocking the power for AI at scale.   We are looking for a passionate Principal Software Engineer, to join us in building the next generation of storage and computation fabric using in-house and open-source technologies. You will be hands-on in a massively scaled and distributed system.   Our developers design, implement, and rollout features with a data-driven and test-driven methodology. Furthermore, they have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and machine learning technologies. We are a flat team, so you will participate in agile scrum, collaborate with people who have different domain expertise, and have opportunities to explore and contribute in a variety of areas.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Share accountability for a wide array of assets and be comfortable with learning a broad array of technologies. Design and implement features in a distributed environment using data to guide and measure success. Debug and mitigate incidents in live production environments. Participate in regular team scrums and communicate regularly and clearly with team members and leads.
Oct 17 Data Center
Data Center Program Manager - Business Operations
Quincy, WA $161,400 In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day and we need you as a Data Center Program Manager - Business Operations  with the primary focus at reducing stranded capacity by being a key member of the local team in the deployment planning and optimization of the IT capacity, working closely with Electrical Engineers and Critical Environment Field Service Engineer.   Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.   With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Be accountable to provide program governance, leadership, and direction for all projects at the campus level to ensure projects are planned and executed on budget and schedule.​ Support the Data Center Project Manager’s with project estimation, budget management, ROI calculations, formulate project delivery strategies while establishing milestones and schedules​. Maintain and report project status, monitor progress, and act as an escalation point ensuring achievement of intended outcomes. ​ Support the Campus Director with Field Employee communications including townhalls, organizing listening sessions, and local campus level communications. ​ Liaise with the Data Center Operational Efficiencies team to ensure campus level financial planning and performance reviews are conducted in accordance to the rhythm of business fiscal calendars and objectives. ​ Support the field operations leadership teams to operationalize all strategic initiatives consistently and effectively at the campus level. Identify and manage scheduling conflicts working with stakeholders to negotiate implementation dates and schedules across IT, Critical Environment, and Facilities teams.
Oct 17 Finance
Finance Director - Capacity Strategy and Geo Expansion
Redmond, WA $214,300   Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy.   The charter for Geo Expansion team is to drive portfolio-level decision making for any new data center investment. As the leader of the team, you will also drive strategic partnerships and competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. We are looking for a Finance Director - Capacity Strategy and Geo Expansion to support our cloud global expansion decisions into new geographies, defining, and achieving desired profitability.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Lead discussions on financial performance of new data center investments (expected return, gross margin impact, incremental revenue opportunity, competitive landscape in the region, etc.) Liaison with Business Development on strategic partnerships, own financial modelling for such deals, including executive alignment on overall deal profitability Drive portfolio-level alignment for data center investments, across different form factors, existing presence in the region and accounting for impact from strategic partnerships. Drive Balance of Trade (BoT) discussions to optimize Microsoft’s leverage over potential suppliers. Partner across Engineering teams to quantify future spend and liaison with sales leadership to drive incremental revenue growth. Partner with Business Development team to identify/ evaluate opportunities for vertical integration that would enhance Cloud Infrastructure operations, both in terms of efficiency and profitability Integrate varied data sources into a comprehensive, clear narrative for leadership for effective decision making.   Specifically, the role is a great opportunity to: Provide financial leadership and support for Microsoft Cloud's global expansion investment decisions. Co-own and drive business model, deal economics, structures and terms with customers and partners. Foster collaboration with cross-functional leaders (Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance) to achieve shared objectives. Identify and implement strategies to attain desired data center profitability and margin profile. Mentor and nurture a high-performing finance team, embodying our values of Model, Coach, and Care. Embody our   Culture   and   Values  
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $128,250 As a part of Microsoft AI platform responsible for providing an efficient runtime and end-to-end application for state-of-the-art (SOTA) AI models that powers the world both within (including co-pilots) and third party applications.   Our team delivers scalable LLM (Large Language Models) inferencing in cost efficient manner for speech, vision and text (multimodal) inputs. Our services are based on Kubernetes based scalable compute on both CPU and GPUs. We also deliver SOTA performance in delivering (near-) real time model personalization.     We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served .    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.     In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Design and implement high performance microservice components , algorithms and integration with other services to deliver scalable API, offline containers as well as libraries for Microsoft Office and Azure Open AI services .    Innovate and bring cutting edge solutions to run AI models at scale ranging from core runtime enhancement using batching, intelligent data packing, parameter efficient inferencing, orchestrating between different AI components.   Trouble shoot system level live services, offline container performance across data centers   Improve the quality of model inference by reducing latency, running models on novel human-like neural network engine as well as traditional GPUs   Implement telemetry and logging to measure performance metrics on GPUs, define new metrics and optimize model inferencing    
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.   Microsoft Entra ID (previously known as Azure Active Directory) is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Office 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services.      Microsoft Entra ID hosts millions of tenants and billions of identities. It serves billions of requests per day in the stacks powering core authentication and programmability.  The backend directory store is at the heart of Microsoft Entra ID architecture.  Our team is evolving the directory store platform to address the needs for the next decade. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in storage and distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance.     We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering distributed cloud services and passion for solving hard problems. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy; our engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and grounded in our customer needs.       Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Build, evolve and co-own a hyper-scale distributed service.  Participate in all stages of service lifecycle.  Dive deep into global-scale service issues and drive improvements to resiliency, latency, and product reliability.  Promote automation effort for regions buildout.  Promote improvements in the quality and stability of service fundamentals and promote engineering best practices.  Demonstrate effective customer empathy, curiosity and willingness to question and learn, and participation in live site on-call rotation. Work as part of geo-distributed group. Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 16 Hardware Engineering
Senior Hardware Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to accomplish that mission.    We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team.   Our team collaborates across different organizations in Azure to build in-house custom hardware. We immensely value culture, mentorship, and acting as a unified team.   As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.    This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Lead design of awesome hardware. Work with internal and external partners to define and specify HW solution requirements. Perform & review Schematic Entry in Cadence tools. Be able to review and guide PCB Layout for high-speed, and high and low power designs. Support BOM Creation & Manufacturing requirements. Create bring-up, test and validation plans to ensure robust hardware. Execute bring-up tests and debug hardware reports. Collaborate with partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. Collaborate with partner ODM/OEM companies Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 16 Administration
Business Support ATR-E
Redmond, WA Global Partner Solutions ( G PS ) is seeking an experienced Executive Business Administrator to support C-Level Executive.   This candidate will be self-motivated, have proficient communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and professionally at all levels. The candidate will need to work effectively within short time constraints, prioritize tasks and take appropriate action . This position is for an individual who is comfortable working w ithout significant oversight or instruction and achieve s results with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.       This role requires complex scheduling skills, operational excellence, an effective use of data and business systems, as well as the continual exposure to internal and external executive leadership .   To be successful, the candidate will have the ability to navigate ambiguity, anticipate and remove administrative roadblocks, make timely decisions across the organization, and adapt to constantly changing environments, while identifying areas to help support the business.       Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Calendar Management Provides strategic calendar management and time planning support for manager(s) (e.g., Senior Corporate Vice President [CVP], Executive Vice President [EVP]). Manages and owns calendar, meeting preparation, and logistics based on knowledge of manager and business needs. Uses executive maturity and judgment with full knowledge of business context to identify and coordinate delegates, execute decisions around prioritization and maintain constant communication with manager and central staff. Leads and owns decision making processes in close partnership with peers and stakeholders (e.g., Chiefs of Staff, Business Managers, Human Resources) and external leaders/business support. Exercises a sense of priority and awareness for high impact meetings, and urgent business needs, and ensures follow-up. Proactively engages with leader and key stakeholders/business partners (e.g., Communications Team, Chiefs of Staff, Business Managers, Human Resources) to make decisions and cascade information as needed. Manages ambiguity and remains calm in stressful situations.   Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication Strengthens their network (internally and externally) across organizations to enable their team and leader's work. Proactively drives communication and liaises between executives, central teams, and other business partners to share information and best practices that drive efficiency. Uses executive maturity and independent judgment, discretion, business insights, and perspectives to direct and prepare staff to distribute information to their teams and/or supported leader. Communicates with executive maturity to external partners/audiences and third parties. Represents and acts as extension of manager's/team's brand and Microsoft's core values.   Discipline Growth and Development Provides leadership and actively seeks out and participates in the Business Support community. Mentors Business Support professionals. Onboards and trains new Business Support staff. Contributes to their organization's culture as a leader. Engages in career development and trainings. Identifies, aligns, and promotes growth opportunities for self and team. Shares best practices and insights. Driving the recruiting process for Business Support roles. Supports team building, networking opportunities, and works to uphold morale.   Team Management Support (Headcount Management, Recruitment, Onboarding/ Offboarding) Leads team experience activities. Collaborates with Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to facilitate internal and external recruitment efforts, and partners with hiring managers to ensure a smooth process. Supports intern and university recruitment for the broader organization (e.g., planning, placement). Creates committees to promote team experiences. Lands and delegates onboarding activities (e.g., ordering new-hire equipment, setting up workstations, distribution lists, security groups) and provides support to new employees, vendors, and interns as an essential contact for questions and company information. Connects new hires with the right stakeholders. Provides high-level support for a seamless executive onboarding experience. Lands and manages headcount management activities in collaboration with Business Manager(s) and/or Chief of Staff including transfers/departures, reporting, offboarding, and transactions within headcount management tools. Identifies areas of improvements and updates for relevant headcount management systems. Works in partnership with Finance and team members to provide up-to-date headcount figures.   Event Coordination and Logistics Manages, plans, and develops events. Takes responsibility for event outcomes and demonstrates executive presence. Leads a team of event planners if needed. Partners with management to understand event aspirations and target goals. Develops and leverages resources for reuse to drive efficiency. Contributes to development of workback schedule, promotion, and necessary checkpoints.       Leadership Leads by example and serves as a role model to Business Support colleagues by maintaining a professional attitude, demonstrating executive presence, influencing others, and encouraging self reflection during challenging situations. Navigates with executive maturity and calmness in challenging situations. Uses executive maturity to escalate issues, proactively ensuring teams effectiveness and consistency. Engages with the Business Support community, keeping a pulse to enable growth across the discipline.   Project Ownership Balances multiple complex projects and timelines end to end while maintaining executional and operational excellence within the division and across business groups. Provides operations and project management support to Senior Leadership. Takes accountability for project outcomes and drives stakeholder accountability. Identifies and provides insights regarding risks and challenges related to projects across the company, and communicates these to executives, partners, and key stakeholders. Streamlines processes, leverages best practices, provides process improvements, and adjusts as needed. Delegates project tasks to Business Support team members and drives accountability of others. Leads efforts to determine measurable success of projects at their conclusion.   Resource Management (Hardware/Supply Management, Purchase/Expense Management Financial Management) Owns expense management including documentation (e.g., purchase orders [POs], receipts, tax award spreadsheets, statements of work, reclassifications), expense tracking, and policy compliance. Educates administrative team on Microsoft Policy to ensure compliancy across team/division/organization and escalates issues as needed. Functions as interim approver for executive office. Oversees supply management and planning and promotes compliance with supply management policies and procedures within an organization. Manages discretionary budget tracking (e.g., morale, hardware, supplies) and reporting. Identifies and resolves expense and supply related issues (e.g., missing purchase orders [POs], account imbalances) by communicating with senior leaders and Finance as applicable. May perform vendor and supplier management, including ensuring they are set up for financial processing. Partners with finance at a high level on all aspects of budgets, headcount and policies, including assisting with annual budget planning by consolidating team requests and prioritizing funding.       Rhythm of Business (ROB) Partners with executive leader(s) and Chiefs of Staff on building and managing annual rhythm of business (ROB), including fiscal year calendar and executive meeting schedule (e.g., Human Resources [HR] cadence, fiscal cadence, SLT cadence, company-wide and/or employee resource group cadence). Strategically communicates ROB cadence and helps to manage workloads, as needed. Identifies and advises on patterns across ROBs. Advises on best practices for developing a distribution plan for confidential internal and external communications in collaboration with Business Managers and/or Chiefs of Staff. Directs continual implementation and flexibility of the ROB in partnership with peers (e.g., Chiefs of Staff). Ensures team members follow ROB and map their planning to established cadences.   Space Management and Planning* Oversees space-management processes and team spaces (e.g., office locations/desk assignments, private conference rooms, seasonally transitional spaces, remote/location status), cascading space management vision to fellow team members. Oversees and streamlines group moves. Addresses and resolves high-level space escalations/requests. Leads large-scale space requests (e.g., annual office restacks, space build outs), liaising between admins and space planner and negotiating for appropriate space for their team. Determines future space planning needs and drives space changes based on utilization data and upcoming organizational changes.   Travel Management Works with Executive Travel to coordinate travel arrangements (e.g., accommodations, transportation, security) for manager(s) and/or group. Creates detailed itineraries/agendas for daily activities by setting and managing travel expectations to maximize trip productivity. Manages all travel logistics and maximizes trip itineraries. Acts as a stand-by resource and ensures availability for varying manager needs/time zones to address issues/escalations during business travel. Maintains availability and acts with urgency to address travel changes as they arise. Drives proactive communication across stakeholders ahead of travel and may communicate with domestic and international stakeholders to ensure the supported leader maximizes business trip outcomes. Ensures required documents (e.g., visas, passports, immunization records) are obtained for international travel. Disseminates and enforces travel policies and expectations. May accompany leaders on business trips (e.g., Inspire, Ready) to provide onsite support. Manages and ensures compliance with US Travel Tax Tool.   Other Embody our culture and values
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer - CTJ – Poly
Reston, Virginia $183,700 Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud+Artificial intelligence (AI) Silver Team. This team will be responsible for deploying and operating services within an Air-Gapped environment.    In this role, as a Senior Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.      Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  The scale of our operations is enormous. Microsoft's products and services are overwhelmingly consumed online, and billions of people use them every day. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no-one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.   Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems. Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalate issues to appropriate owners. Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards. Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identifies internal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies. Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality. Embody our  Culture   &   Values
Oct 16 Hardware Engineering
Principal AI Platform Architect
Redmond, WA $215,800 The Azure Platform Architecture team is at the forefront of technology and system design, leading the way for the next generation of systems and AI super computers. Our mission is to architect the most performant, secure, reliable, and cost and power o ptimized solutions that are deployed and managed at hyperscale and power Azure. Leading the AI platform architecture for these systems that power one of the largest hardware deployments on earth requires deep technical knowledge and partnership across many teams. This individual will act as the subject matter expert and platform architect for Microsoft internal Artificial intelligence (AI) Accelerator family products, helping articulate and define our next generation platforms. This requires working across multiple domains including product, software, electrical, mechanical, thermal, performance, a nd deployment to find the right solution  trade -offs.     We are looking for a  Principal AI Platform Architect  to join the team.   Our team is part of a broader hardware and infrastructure organization known as the Silicon , Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE). SCHIE is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 200+ online businesses including Teams, OneDrive, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, Bing, MSN, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally.    We architect and design the server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions to support these businesses. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and deliver trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, at hyperscale, with high reliability and the best performance/price level is paramount.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.    In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively  impact  our culture every day   Drive platform, rack, and datacenter-level architectural concepts and definition for Microsoft AI system products.    Build relationships with our internal silicon development organizations, technology, and development partners to drive leading edge innovation into our next generation products.     Partner across Microsoft teams and collaborate to deliver industry leading products.    Distill and articulate architectural tradeoffs encompassing electrical, signal integrity, mechanical, power, and thermal inputs in terms of key metrics such as Total Cost of Ownership TCO, performance, power efficiency, schedule, and risk.    Drive and influence technology providers and design partners towards  optimal  components and solutions to meet the future requirements for Azure’s infrastructure.   Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft runs on trust.  Earning and keeping that trust has never been more important.      In Customer Security and Trust (CST), program managers, engineers, analysts, investigators, data scientists, attorneys, and business professionals are responsible for some of the most exciting projects at Microsoft focused on protecting our customers.    The Cybersecurity & Trust Engineering team (CSTE) in CST is the central driving force of Engineering and Cybersecurity initiatives for CST and for Microsoft Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) as a whole. The Security and Privacy Engineering (SPE) team is responsible for embedding security and privacy considerations into all facets of the organization’s operations. SPE team is instrumental in identifying critical risks, providing engineering and cybersecurity expertise to implement effective mitigations, and working closely with diverse stakeholders across the company and external organizations to safeguard information assets and ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and standards.   We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This role will be part of the SPE team, contributing to security initiatives within the organization and across CELA Division with the opportunity of bigger impact. You will contribute to strategic projects and assignments to help increase the security posture of cloud infrastructure and services, assessing security and privacy risks and contribute to improvements and remediation of issues.   This is a unique opportunity within Microsoft to work in a dynamic and collaborative team with impact across many services harvesting the power of the cloud, apply your Security and technical skills to empower analysts and investigators to keep our digital world safe for consumers and businesses across the globe.       A successful candidate will be passionate about secure development practices and architecture , reliability, cloud computing and automation necessary to strengthen the resiliency and security posture of our services and infrastructure .   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.    #CELA Establish collaboration with Engineering teams in CSTE and across CELA on new features, services, and updates to the product     Participate in threat model reviews and help identify security flaws early in the design phases    Foster onboarding and adoption of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)    Help design implementation of Defense in Depth and Zero Trust strategies while ensuring secure by design, security by default, and secure by deployment principles    Lead security architecture reviews     Provide guidance and recommendations for secure development     Fix security issues in code or infrastructure    Participate in code reviews to evaluate security risks and improvements    Lead cloud incident response activities as they occur    Promote security awareness and provide training and good coding practices    Supports operational security and security incidents as well as security reviews   Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize secure engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas including automation    Contribute to, and establish a strategic view of risk to our services and iterative and consistent security improvements     Other Embody our culture and values
Oct 16 Business Operations
Business Program Manager
Redmond, WA $147,550 Global Datacenter Operations is an exciting, rapidly growing organization responsible for operating our cloud infrastructure for Cloud & Artificial Intelligence (C+AI).  We are looking for an experienced Business Program Manager to focus on furthering people-related programs within our datacenter employee population. This position will collaborate with the leadership team, Chief of Staff, Employee Network Groups, and HR Business Partners, etc. to cultivate, plan, monitor, execute, and drive continuous improvements in the datacenters. This individual must have a blend of strategy, planning, communications, and program management skills. Being part of this team would give you an opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing business and to enable our global impact. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.  With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%. Who you are: A systems thinker. Someone who thinks about the big picture and how existing programs can scale across a business and different verticals, driving business relevance while leveraging a corporate framework. A good listener. You are curious and empathetic in your interactions and outreach at all levels of the organization with an eye toward identifying themes and opportunities for organizational excellence. You’re able to process multiple different information flows and make sense of what you’re seeing with a desire to learn and iterate. A relationship builder. You’re skilled at bringing people together to work towards a common goal or challenge. An excellent and timely communicat or; able to communicate succinctly and optimize interactions with senior stakeholders as well as broad employee populations. Someone who has a practical understanding and interest in the impact of organizational culture on lived employee experiences across a broad range of communities.   What you will work on: Execute on the rhythm of business for leadership sponsors and v-team members across multiple workstreams, ensuring focused and timely alignment to the corporate framework and increase the visibility of programs across the organization by presenting in leadership forums. Partner with the Leadership Team, Chief of Staff, and several business partners to understand priorities and identify areas where people programs (such as employee learning and development, morale events, communications, etc.) can help achieve desired outcomes. Act as a strategist and thought partner to in-business Employee Network Groups (ENGs); partnering on events, development of related OKRs, and ensuring groups are supported and connected across the organization. Monitor and analyze employee survey sentiment, feedback from listening sessions and other listening systems to provide regular reports and recommendations to senior leadership and partner teams. Manage, execute, and scale people programs within Datacenter Operations. Leverage proven programs and infrastructure from across the C+AI division while identifying gaps and unique needs that need localized intervention.
Oct 16 Hardware Engineering
SoC Verification Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a SoC Verification Engineer II to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Compute Development Organization (CCDO) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. CCDO is at the forefront of innovation and application of Artificial Intelligence(AI) to silicon development workflows. We are looking for a SoC Verification Engineer II with customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a SoC Verification Engineer II to join the team.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     Own verification of complex flows at the System on Chip(SOC) or subsystems levels. Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans. Develop verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality. Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals. Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools. Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion. Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 16 Product Management
Product Manager
Redmond, WA $153,550 The Xbox Accessories team is on a journey to deliver the best gaming accessories in the industry, for gamers to play on any device – consoles, PCs, mobile devices, Smart TVs, and more. A fundamental part of our Xbox Accessories strategy is enabling players to seamlessly connect their accessories wherever they want to play and enjoy a premium and immersive gaming experience. Delivering on this strategy requires understanding customer, category, and competition and then leveraging core product, technology, and business skills to define a winning approach.   We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to manage the product lifecycle of key gaming accessories. From leading the definition of new, innovative gaming accessories products that keep us competitive, to being accountable for in-market performance and the product line business. The successful candidate will be capable of leading multiple groups and teams on the product journey, driving alignment and clarity that go beyond internal goals and boundaries.        Customer Insights: Identify customer unmet needs, gather and analyze customer feedback, usage data, and market research to inform product decisions and prioritize features Strategic Vision: Develop and articulate a clear and compelling strategic vision for gaming accessories that span multiple gaming platforms Product Roadmap: Lead the creation and maintenance of the product category roadmap, aligning with company objectives and market opportunities Product Lifecycle Management: Manage in-market products, understand market dynamics, take-in customer feedback, and work with sales and marketing to optimize business results Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth market analysis to identify emerging trends, competitive landscape, and market opportunities, translating findings into actionable insights Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with hardware engineering, software development, industrial design, marketing, finance, and other cross-functional teams to drive product development from concept to launch and sustain through the entire product lifecycle Technical Understanding: Possess a good understanding of relevant technologies, including those in consumer electronics, the PC industry, and general gaming technologies, to effectively guide product requirement efforts Project Management: Take accountability for the execution of product initiatives, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope constraints Stakeholder Communication: Communicate product strategy, milestones, and updates to internal stakeholders, executive leadership, and external partners as needed, driving clarity and alignment on product goals and objectives Performance Tracking: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and track progress against goals, iterating and optimizing as necessary
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, user experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services.   As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will work on building complete security solutions. You will have the chance to work on one or more layers of the security stack, ranging from enhancing the Linux kernel security capabilities to virtualization based approaches to securing the operating system, and mission critical online services for supporting these types of security technologies. In addition to a lot of design and coding opportunities, you will interact with and learn from the large Open Source Linux community and engineers from companies across the technology spectrum working on Linux and related projects. You will also be able to create and contribute to open source projects. If you love challenging technical problems, this is the job for you. This is a fast-paced group that rewards smart and motivated engineers and takes employee growth and work satisfaction issues very seriously.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Are you passionate about computer security? Does the idea of working on several layers of Linux and working with the Open Source community excite you? Does the idea of presenting your break through security innovations in security conferences give you thrills? Do you take pride in designing secure systems and writing secure code? Do you get thrills from reverse engineering binaries and analyzing them? The Edge Security team in the Azure Endpoint + Platform Group is looking for a talented, creative, motivated and driven software engineer to push the security bar of Microsoft Linux products to a new level. The team’s mission is to make Edge Devices and Azure cloud servers the most secure and trustworthy computing devices in the world. This team owns the Microsoft edge security strategy and we are focused on building state of the art security systems for a wide variety of Microsoft’s current and future products.
Oct 16 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Director of Data Science
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams , OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for en gineers to help achieve that mission.     The Cloud Hardware Analytics & Tools (CHAT) Team within SCHIE develops advanced analytical and tooling solutions to support and improve the quality of Microsoft Azure. We collect and analyze data across the full Azure stack, HW & SW components, Silicon development processes, and much more.     Are you an experienced leader with over 10 years of managing engineers and a deep technical knowledge of software development, data science, and applied AI technology? We want to talk to you!     We are seeking a Director of Data Science to lead our AI and Data Science team within the Azure cloud hardware division. This growing team is crucial to the expansion of the Azure cloud business. In this role, you will lead a team of experienced AI and Data Science professionals, driving the vision of building internal AI capabilities to solve complex business problems and deliver exceptional value to our customers.     Relocation assistance is available within the US. Recruiting and hiring top tallent   Managing a team of AI and Data Science professionals   A nalyze large-scale Azure data to address critical business problems   Work on complex, mission-critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services   Design and develop production-level code for data science   Work in collaborative environment   Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 16 Program Management
Principal Engineering Program Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.     As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.      We are looking for a Principal HW Eng . Program Manager to join the team.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Lead a virtual team of functional leads including members from hardware and software engineering, sourcing, supply chain, networking and datacenter operations for documenting a Plan-of-Record (POR) for the new product development and leading the project team to meet stated milestones   Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development.  Drive the development, planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy.  Provides technical leadership and identify technical risks.   Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.   Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones, deliverables and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure.  Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.   Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.   Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver in class architecture solutions   Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and mitigation of risks, recovery from risks.    Communicate to and regularly interact with senior management, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions   Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate .   Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development, launch, and deployments.   Use program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of program plan of record to stakeholders   Embody our culture and values.
Oct 16 Product Management
Principal Gaming Product Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Passionate about Games? Do you want to help Game Developers in building them? Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best platform and experiences for both gamers and game developers. We work closely with industry leaders across hardware, software, services and our 1st and 3rd party game development partners to ensure Microsoft’s platforms are designed and optimized to meet the needs of our most passionate fans and players, whether they choose to play on the Xbox console, their Windows PC or laptop, or mobile devices. The Xbox Game Development Experiences (GDX) team is responsible for defining and delivering an industry leading developer experience and tools for the top game developers in the world on both PC and the Xbox consoles. We are looking for a Principal Gaming Product Manager who shares our passion for enabling developers to build amazing PC and Xbox games and wants to deliver features that developers will love. We are looking for someone with a passion for Gaming, Technology, Game Developers and Developer tools. This candidate is experienced at building great products, has the technical strength needed to engage with engineering organizations, has the customer focus needed to engage with and understand the unique Xbox developer community and has the ability to partner successfully across organizational boundaries. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Partner with stakeholders across business, design, technical program management, and engineering to define the business case, product strategy, and roadmap for our engagement with Middleware partners and technologies Collaborate with hardware and software engineers, design, marketing, 1PP & 3PP game studios, and other key contributors Manage and support feature crews across multiple divisions in delivering high quality tools features on schedule Provide outstanding communications to Executive Leadership and other stakeholders Develop data-informed solutions that drive efficiencies for our customers and our business Participate in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where all voices are heard, and everyone can bring their full and authentic self to work.    
Oct 16 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Data Scientist II
Redmond, WA $153,550 The Microsoft AI (Artifical Intelligence) Web Data team is looking for a Data Scientist II  to help us build the next generation platform for Bing and Microsoft AI. In Web Data, we are on a mission to build the most vast and accurate model of the Web to power search and AI. We are pushing frontiers of scalability and index quality by creating models and systems for discovering, storing, processing Web content, and operating AI solutions. Our core set of engineering challenges includes: Discovering diverse content on the Web quickly and efficiently by understanding the structure and dynamics of the Web and optimizing crawl scheduling. Building Big Data pipelines, creating ML(Machine Learning) and AI models for index selection, and determining document quality. Designing and implementing models and pipelines for near-real time (NRT) indexing and content freshness. Designing and implementing methods for leveraging AI in platform and backend solutions. This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to tackle deep technical challenges and strives for industry-wide impact. At this role, you'd be dealing with and learning how to do data collection, analysis and cleaning, building Big Data pipelines, making decision based on data, doing model training and deployment, and working with LLMs both for prompt engineering and fine-tuning. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Acquire the data necessary for your project plan and use querying, visualization, and reporting techniques to describe that data. You’ll also explore data for key attributes and collaborate with others to perform data science experiments using established methodologies. Understand modeling techniques, select the correct tool and approach to complete objectives, and evaluate the output for statistical and business significance. You’ll also analyze model performance and incorporate customer feedback into its evaluation. Understand the current state of the industry, including current trends, so that you can contribute to thought leadership best practices. Write efficient code for a specific feature, and develop a working expertise of proper debugging techniques. Understand each customer’s business goals and learn best practices for identifying growth opportunities. Examine projects through a customer-oriented focus, and manage customer expectations regarding project progress.
Oct 16 Hardware Engineering
Director, Power Hardware Engineering
Redmond, WA $215,800 The Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) organization is responsible for developing and delivering the hardware and firmware that is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.    We are looking for a Director, Power Hardware Engineering to join the team.   The Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.    As Director , Power Hardware Engineering , you will be the technical voice focusing on design efforts specific to power infrastructure across Azure within Microsoft. You will be leading System level design and development , for AI and non AI systems, influencing architecture , engineering, and validation for our product s to deliver high quality solutions to the customers. You will also be responsible to develop and deploy solutions that enable reliable end to end delivery . This is an opportunity to work on next generation architecture and provide innovative solution to customers.   Work closely with multiple server Platform teams to create and support state of the art high power solutions and delivery for numerous parallel program developments.   Work with Rack level development programs to develop and support leading edge high power delivery and conversion solutions at the rack to server level.   Work hand in hand with Architect teams developing high quality, High reliability high power delivery using 48VDC and HVDC power shelf voltage levels and distribution.      Support system engineering, Mechanical Engineering and global integration partners in executing new designs .   Be a power subject matter expert to internal and external CHIE partners to resolve issues and obstacles as they arise in development and production.   Work with Data Center Engineering and management to support/suggest infrastructure changes and improvements.   Position requires working with and developing relationships with Microsoft internal quality, reliability, Agency, supply chain and Data center teams to ensure a smooth product delivery from concept to end of life.   Position also requires support of PDU’s, UPS’s, Power conditioners, Circuit Breakers, Bus Bars, Battery Backup, ATS’s.    Position requires ability to create specifications, and ability to test and support testing of all solutions in all stages of development.  Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 16 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Principal Applied Scientist
Redmond, WA $238,000 Why work at Microsoft Turing       Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Applied Scientist role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you!       The Microsoft Turing team hiring a Principal Applied Scientist to join our innovative research and engineering team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models to power end user experiences across the company. Applied scientists and software engineers in the Turing team work together to push the boundaries of large-scale deep learning models on Turing’s world class distributed training infrastructure. The team is pioneering search and the core copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem.       In addition to ensuring that Microsoft is pushing the  state-of-the-art large-scale models, the Turing team also works on improving experiences across Microsoft’s products and services by working on high value scenarios. The Turing team has shipped capabilities across all of  many Microsoft scenarios including M365 Copilots, Bing Chat, search for enterprise and knowledge management (aka  Cortex ) , quick reply on Outlook , Smart Compose features in Word, image enhancement models, image search models,  as well as many other features across Office,Bing , and Xbox.        Read more about our team’s work here: https://turing.microsoft.com.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. As part of the team, you would be driving projects through their entire life-cycle from idea creation through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users. We are looking for strong, motivated, results-oriented principal applied scientist to help drive the design and implementation of the next wave of improvements of products for M365 Copilot and Microsoft. You would be working with truly big data by training and extending the capability of deep learning models to provide compelling experiences across our products. Projects can span across modeling, data engineering, model optimization, large scale experimentation, and shipment of cutting edge technology for millions of users. Due to the wide range of project opportunities, projects are assigned based on candidate's interest and background. Also, the project assignments are fairly permeable. So, one can move around and play different roles depending on your interest.  
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Are you an adept software engineer who is passionate about building infrastructure and enhancing service release operations to ensure they are safe, secure, and efficient? Do you enjoy leading innovative solutions to boost engineering productivity within an organization? Are you keen to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to secure, streamline, and improve the quality of developers' daily tasks? Do you like solving complex technical issues and collaborating with various teams across the company? If so, we have an excellent opportunity for you! We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Microsoft Teams Core Services team. This role focuses on improving our infrastructure and managing build and release activities for our core platform and backend services. The Core Services team is responsible for foundational services, underlying platforms, and key service fundamentals. Microsoft Teams is rapidly expanding, becoming the fastest-growing product in Microsoft's history, boasting over 330 million active users worldwide. The Core Services team plays a vital role in the Teams backend by developing a resilient infrastructure that supports cost-effective hyper-scaling, enables expansion into various specialized clouds currently under development, and ensures secure and efficient build and release processes. Our work culture is inclusive, casual, and dynamic. You will collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team of engineers, technical program managers, and stakeholders to define the vision, architecture, and roadmap for service infrastructure, builds, and release operations. Additionally, you will mentor and guide other engineers, promote best practices, and ensure the quality and reliability of our systems.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond Technical Leadership: Lead build and release operations with a focus on safety, security, and performance. Mentor and guide a team of engineers to ensure best practices are followed. Build and Release Operations: Oversee the entire build and release process, ensuring services are delivered efficiently and securely. Implement and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automate workflows, and ensure high availability. Security and Compliance: Ensure all build and release operations meet the highest standards of security and compliance. Implement security best practices and conduct regular audits and assessments. Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of build and release processes. Identify and resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements. Engineering Thrive: Develop and implement strategies to enhance the work environment and productivity of service engineers. Foster a culture of continuous learning and development. Explore and embrace AI technologies to improve developer productivity. Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, Technical Program Managers (TPMs), and operations, to ensure seamless integration and delivery of services. Build coalitions of support among teams across the organization to accomplish challenging projects. Continuous Improvement: Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and highly complex issues by identifying and troubleshooting the issue, deploying appropriate fixes, and implementing automations to prevent recurring problems. Ensure adherence to and implementation of security, privacy, and compliance standards.
Oct 16 Program Management
Senior Technical Program Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft’s cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale, enabling ~30% of Microsoft revenue through Commercial Cloud. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predictable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including the Microsoft Azure service portfolio, Microsoft 365, Dynamics, Xbox Live, and Microsoft Live services. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and 1 million servers. Our portfolio is built and managed by a team of subject matter experts working 24x7x365 to provide services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.   We are looking for a customer obsessed, data driven, Senior Technical Program Manager with robust collaboration and communication skills, and execution ability, to drive telemetry related initiatives in the Datacenter Transformation space. As a Senior TPM you will be responsible to drive product vision, strategy and execution of the products developed for our data center operators. You will lead a cross-functional team of world class software engineers, datacenter operators & SMEs, and partner with Azure Engineering teams to define and deliver step function business improvements through transformative software solutions. This is a unique, high impact opportunity to work at the intersection of business and technology, and space is expected to grow significantly over the next few years.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. As the Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be accountable for driving the adoption and deployment of Microsoft’s Critical Environment monitoring platform, ensuring high availability of our data centers hosting Microsoft’s customer data and workloads . Driving adoption of our platform is key – the more data centers that use the platform, the more Microsoft knows about the critical environment systems that run our cloud. Driving technical advancement is key – we are continuously learning, growing, and evolving our technical capabilities to gather more data, more quickly, and more reliably. Working across teams to achieve these goals is a must. You will work effectively across teams to ensure adoption of Microsoft’s critical environment monitoring platform, ensure its expected operational parameters, and drive future improvements and enhancements to the platform. You’ll work with Program Management, Software Engineering, Operations, and Engineering teams to achieve these goals. You will adopt a “product engineering approach” to deliver end-to-end software solutions and will define and own product roadmap, drive planning activities, and partner with engineering and Operations teams to ensure successful delivery and operationalization.
Oct 16 Finance
Senior Finance Manager
Redmond, WA $147,550 We are hiring a Senior Finance Manager as a part of our Finance organization. This is an exciting opportunity to drive deep business impact in the Azure solution areas by leading key workstreams of Azure Databases and Migrations, while also driving engagement with Field and Finance teams through the Innovation Acceleration Program. As part of the MCAPS (Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions) Core Finance Azure Solution Area team, this role will partner closely with MCAPS Sales Leadership, Corporate and Area Field teams, and Finance partners on developing and landing impactful consumption analytics, new go to market motions, and sales execution engines that drive Azure business health. The role will also be part of the WW Azure Finance Community and will collaborate closely with Regional Product Leaders and Chief Financial Officer, Finance Leads at Corporate, and other product-aligned business leaders.   The MCAPS Finance organization:  Land the company vision around the transformation of our business and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally. Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective. Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way. Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities. Be part of a team of expert individuals leading product sales execution insights.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Partnership: Collaborate across groups without direct authority to deliver high-impact results. Partner with MCAPS Sales, and Marketing to drive cloud consumption analytics supporting critical Azure motions across Databases and relevant solution plays, segments, and areas. Enable deeper understanding of key Azure workloads by building models that provide actionable insights and follow up with field leader across Sales and Finance orgs. Understand competitive market insights, provide thought leadership to challenge business leads around new business opportunities / growth road map landscape.  Develop and land scalable ROB frameworks that help simplify business performance analytics for Finance and Business Leadership Team. Processes: Effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects, tasks, and stakeholders - often under tight deadlines. Accountable for Finance content within MCAPS standard rhthym of business (e.g. monthly & quarterly reviews). Drive reporting and BI work-streams supporting key motions, focused primarily on Migration (including Commerce & Ecosystem Licensing) and Build & Modernize AI Apps. Present at Corporate Finance Leadership Team reviews and MCAPS Corporate Vice President Monthly Business Reports. People: Work closely with worldwide Azure controller community to focus on the key insights and projects to accelerate our growth.  Identify finance best practices and share them broadly. Connect the dots and help Field Finance teams land the Corporate strategy or escalate issues and help needed.
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services.      Would you like to learn about the inner workings of Azure Adaptive Cloud ? Are you excited about jumping deep into various areas and composing a bigger picture? Microsoft is leading the way to extend Azure cloud services to sovereign, disconnected, edge, enterprise, and hybrid scenarios. Deploying hyperscale services into hybrid and disconnected clouds provides unique and innovative engineering challenges. If you are inspired by this cloud innovation, have the skills to build and support production grade services, and are looking for a dynamic and collaborative team environment, come talk to us!     To deliver on our vision, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is excited about the prospect of learning and diving into different areas, who will bring clarity to our designs and can methodically bring a plan into action. This is a unique opportunity that will heighten your knowledge of distributed systems and will give you an exclusive behind-the- scenes look into the internals of Azure. We are looking for a motivated engineer who wants to solve interesting problems and lead the change across teams.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for the following:  Play a pivotal role in developing top-tier services and serverless infrastructure that powers the Azure Adaptive Cloud platform. We seek adept developers with a fervor for exploring new domains, crafting clean and optimized code, enhancing coding standards, and delivering swiftly while maintaining a customer-centric focus. We operate on brief, frequent release cycles, fostering innovation across numerous areas. We value intelligent, driven engineers who possess a positive attitude and a growth mindset, ready to transform ambiguity into precise, elegant deliverables that significantly impact our customers.  
Oct 16 Program Management
Senior Director, ISV Ecosystem
Redmond, WA $238,000 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.   Azure Data is hiring an experienced leader that shares our passion to help customers and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) build and modernize their offerings to integrate with Microsoft Fabric. The Senior Director, ISV Ecosystem   will lead a team of experienced product managers to build and nurture a vibrant ecosystem around Microsoft Fabric. This role is pivotal in driving strategic partnerships with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and ensuring the successful integration and adoption of Fabric within the ISV community. Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive data and analytics platform that integrates various data services and tools to provide a unified experience for data professionals. It leverages the power of Data and AI to deliver insights and drive innovation. To excel in this role, you need to be a leader with a passion for building ecosystems and driving product innovation. You should have a deep understanding of the ISV landscape and a proven ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships. Solid analytical skills and the ability to make informed decisions are crucial. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are essential, as you will be collaborating with various stakeholders across Microsoft and our partners. A strategic mindset and the ability to drive long-term vision and execution will set you apart in this role. You will work with customers and partners to architect and design the solutions, proof of concepts or pilot projects to make our customers successful. Through these engagements, you will represent the voice of the customer, distilling new requirements and issues into improvements for engineering teams. You will also collect patterns and lessons learned from your engagements and turn them into reference architectures and best practices that can be used for scaling the ecosystem and sharing with the global Azure Data Services community. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Leadership and Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of product managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Ensure the team is aligned with the strategic goals of the Fabric ISV Ecosystem. Strategic Partnerships: Develop and maintain solid relationships with key ISVs. Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration that enhance the Fabric ecosystem. Ecosystem Development: Drive the growth and engagement of the Fabric ISV ecosystem. Work closely with ISVs to understand their needs and ensure Fabric meets those needs effectively. Product Integration: Oversee the integration of ISV products with Fabric. Ensure seamless interoperability and positive user experience. Market Analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends and competitive landscape. Use insights to inform strategy and drive continuous improvement. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including engineering, product, BD, marketing, sales, and other Microsoft teams to align on project goals, requirements, deliverables, and timelines. Efforts and maximize the impact of the ISV ecosystem Performance Metrics: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of the ISV ecosystem initiatives. Use data-driven insights to guide decision-making and strategy adjustments. Embody our culture and values .
Oct 16 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Senior Data Scientist
Redmond, WA $183,700 For over 20 years, Microsoft Gaming has been on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We have a diverse and rich portfolio of products and gaming franchises, including Xbox, Minecraft, Zenimax, Activision, Blizzard, King, and more. We empower players to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want.   The Player Support Experience (PSE) organization is part of the Gaming Product Services and Operations (GPSO) organization in Microsoft Gaming and is on a mission to keep players gaming. PSE drives the digital transformation of Gaming Support, provides personalized, predictive and proactive support to players across all Gaming endpoints, and ultimately delivers gamer happiness through empathy and customer obsession. As a Senior Data Scientist you'll help build backend services, apps and web experiences, AI and ML systems, and dashboards and alerting that enable Microsoft Gaming to listen to our players and prevent issues before they happen and to deliver personalized, predictive, and proactive support that solves problems and makes everyday tasks for our players easier than before.   As a Senior Data Scientist in PSE, you’ll deliver and implement core requirements of our AI-driven support strategy by building and fine-tuning AI models and experimentation scorecards, and analyzing data to measure the impact of AI-driven products. This opportunity will allow you to be a leader for the data science approach and implementation in the team, increase your strategic thinking, and deliver value to the Microsoft Gaming business and to our millions of players. You will partner with other product managers who are defining the customer-facing experience and service requirements for our AI strategy and will bridge the gap to ensure our AI models, experimentation, and data enable us to deliver those requirements. Ultimately, you must be hands-on and deliver this work for a breadth of products and programs. You’ll be able to work in person, remotely, or a mix in order to collaborate with our team that is geographically dispersed.   You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have direct experience in fine-tuning AI models, building new experimentation scorecards, and analyzing data to support a product portfolio, if you are obsessed about delivering great products for gaming players, if you can partner with people across operational and engineering roles and at different levels of altitude simultaneously, and if you can wear many hats to bring value to projects, partnerships, and plans. Acquire the data necessary for your project plan and develop usable data sets for modeling. Update internal best practices for data collection and preparation, and contribute to data integrity conversations with customers. Help develop and ship large language model applications to customers and measure the impact of those models. Monitor, refine, and fine-tune those models. Evaluate the team’s models and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. You’ll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and identify and invent new evaluation methods. Research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices. You’ll also write extensible code that spans multiple features, and develop expertise in proper debugging techniques. Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. You’ll also apply a customer-oriented focus to understand their needs, and help drive realistic customer expectations. Define experimentation plans and build updated scorecard metrics to measure the success and impact of numerous product experiments. Partner with PSE Leadership and Product Managers to assess gap-upside for future strategic efforts, business development partnerships, and other potential areas for growth. Ensure team KPIs and goals tie back to Gaming division business drivers. Help drive the planning, measurements, and reporting for OKRs at the PSE-level. Partner with stakeholders across the team, organization, and company to drive operational excellence, partnerships, and impact. Influence the broader PM team in data skills, analysis, expertise, and usage to drive research and decision-making. Foster a learning culture, not a knowing culture, where data helps employees seize opportunities to learn, fail fast, and iterate. Embody our  Culture and  Values .
Oct 16 Program Management
Technical Program Manager
Redmond, WA $128,250 Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure CXP team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.     We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our team. Azure Site Reliability Engineering ( SRE ) teams strive to improve reliability fundamentals via software engineering operational improvement , preferring long-lasting platform improvements delivered as engineering projects over repetitive manual operations. We contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, and prefer reuse over re-invention, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.     We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management, support, and enablement. We analyze and amplify those customer voices, both within our own team, and across the Cloud + AI team, bringing the customer connection to the Quality vision for Azure. We innovate ways to scale what we learn across our customer base.  Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals. Azure Reliability team is a multidisciplinary engineering organization part of Customer Experience Platform (CXP) dedicated to making, “Azure the safest and most reliable Cloud”.       We are not looking for people who know it all, we are looking for people who want to learn it all. We value the input of people who aren’t afraid to learn all the time and embrace mistakes as they continuously improve both our services and themselves . If you are excited by this type of challenge and you love to work in groups of people who are similarly excited: come join us!      Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed.     This role supports flexible work from home with occasional in - office meetings.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Project Management: Familiarity with and ability to manage the planning, execution, and delivery of projects that assist the Project Standard Intake & Adoption team. Ensure projects are finished on time, within scope, and within budget. Assists in the development and communication of project plans ensuring project remains on track to meet deadlines and goals. Partnering with engineering teams to comprehend the success criteria and performance metrics, ensuring that the required telemetry is established, and performance targets are met. Stakeholder Management: Partner with standard owners, consumers, and other stakeholders. Assist others in facilitating collaboration and partnership to envision, author, implement, and maintain standards through their lifecycle. Support those managing feedback channels aimed at ongoing improvement, and pinpoint opportunities to reduce repetitive tasks, implement shift-left strategies, and explore additional Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives. TPM Supported Standard Development: Assists in offering consultative support to standard owners for the creation and trial of new standards. Continuous Improvement: Helps formulate and test hypotheses aimed at process enhancements, ensuring they match engineering requirements, market trends, and the company's objectives. Gains knowledge and initiates support for gathering and analyzing performance metrics, using developer feedback systems and insights from past experiences to constantly evaluate and enhance processes for developing, executing, and sustaining Engineering Standards. Assists in identifying and driving opportunities for innovation and efficiency in engineering practices to enhance productivity and quality. Developer Experience and Supportability: Support the development and analysis of detailed business cases, including problem statements, solution options, cost-benefit analysis, risk assessments, and implementation plans to support strategic decisions. Help track and report on the performance of Engineering Standards initiatives, using data-driven insights to provide expert guidance on engineering challenges and opportunities related to standardization. Other:  Embody our culture and values  
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $215,800 The PAVE (Platform, Validation and Engineering) team as part of the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization at Microsoft plays a critical role in the development and distribution of Windows media to a diverse range of customers. This includes generating operating system and container images for OEMs, enterprises, and cloud platforms such as Azure and other clouds. The PAVE team is also responsible for Windows Validation and enhancing Engineering Productivity across the WSD organization. PAVE is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join the team and drive innovation which will impact millions of customers globally.   As a Principal Software Engineer , you will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver impactful design improvements that align with Microsoft's long-term strategies for Windows Servicing & Delivery. You will help build common frameworks that can be leveraged across the PAVE charters, as well as with other teams working on similar initiatives within Microsoft. You will be a critical part of PAVE’s mission to ensure that the media powering Windows updates is reliable, secure, and adaptable to the needs of various customers.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Lead the design, development, and optimization of core frameworks that support both the Media and Validation charters within PAVE. Collaborate with teams across Windows Servicing & Delivery to ensure alignment with strategic goals, ensuring seamless integration of media creation, validation, and productivity solutions. Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable services for producing media images such as ISO, VHD, VHDX, WIM, and container formats that are utilized by OEMs, enterprises, Azure, and other cloud environments. Drive engineering productivity enhancements by identifying opportunities for process automation, tooling improvements, and cross-team collaboration. Work closely with stakeholders in Windows, Azure, OEMs, and enterprise customers to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet their evolving needs. Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence across the PAVE team.
Oct 16 Marketing
Business Program Manager
Redmond, WA $133,200 Love thinking about how to apply the latest marketing and sales technologies to drive marketing results and revenue? Can you roll up your sleeves and get down into the details? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can help blaze a trail and make an impact? Want to help lead the marketing transformation at Microsoft?   The Global Demand Center team is looking for a highly talented Business Program Manager (BPM)- Marketing Operations to help drive its marketing operations and reporting efforts for our GitHub pre-sales business. In this role, you’ll be the execution “glue” for a high-performing team of marketing professionals with a variety of skills (Marketing Technologists, Platform Specialists, Data Analysts, Content Strategist, Marketers, and others) to drive buyers to make the right choice for GitHub and Microsoft. You’ll have the unique opportunity to be a thought leader at the intersection of marketing and technology to help take the Marketing Operations business to new heights of innovation and results.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.      In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  • Being a modern marketing technology leader! Understanding marketing technology opportunities and guiding the team to the implementation approaches to best suit ultimate business goals. • Being the subject matter expert for the end-to-end Global Demand Center Marketing Operations ecosystem, establishing the tools and processes to support management of incoming requests and driving a v-team to evaluate, prioritize and deliver against those requests. • Engaging with business stakeholders and Senior Leaders across teams to frame, structure and prioritize operational solutions to drive operational efficiencies. • Establishing baseline measurements to enable the identification, quantification, and ability to measure improvements in our operating model to reduce time, skill, and overall costs. • Building and manage operational analytics reports working alongside key roles in our end-to-end ecosystem, who will leverage the solutions you build in their day-to-day roles. • Working across tech workstreams and business teams to drive system/tool changes to support business priorities and increase efficiency.   Other Embody our culture and values  
Oct 16 Finance
Revenue Recognition Finance Manager
Redmond, WA $119,200 We are hiring a Revenue Recognition Finance Manager to join our organization. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced accounting professional to work in a high performing team at a world class company. The Microsoft Corporate Accounting Revenue Recognition team is responsible for the reporting accuracy of billions of dollars of revenue across the world for both US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and local statutory reporting.  We have the privilege of helping to shape and enable some of the largest and most strategic deals for the company.  If you enjoy working on a highly collaborative team, enjoy a fast pace combined with complex challenges, and you have a deep desire to learn, consider joining our team of revenue recognition professionals.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Evaluate customer agreements, including amendments to those agreements, document the proper technical revenue conclusions, and prepare revenue adjustments in accordance with Azure Support Center (ASC) 606 Microsoft revenue policies, and customer/field intent. Develop and maintain depth and breadth of knowledge over Microsoft products, services and policies. Engage with deal desk to gather deal specific information and business context required to effectively complete contract reviews and drive compliance within Microsoft empowerment guidance.  Review peer's work product for completeness and accuracy once proficiency of product and services knowledge is attained. Perform quarter end close revenue tasks independently. Contribute to process-improvement efforts by collecting and reviewing business partner and team feedback and incorporating industry best practices. Assist with internal and external audit queries on revenue recognition. Identify and assess financial statement risk to provide input on initiatives to enhance control compliance with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). 
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.   Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.   We are the SQL Performance and hardware onboarding team, responsible for performance and scalability of SQL on Windows, Linux, on-premises, and cloud. We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. We work with our partners to enable modern micro architectures for SQL and publish world record TPC benchmarks.   We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Contribute to current/upcoming product improvements that have key performance deliverables solutions in collaboration with teammates. Collaborate with OEMs partners in analyzing SQL performance on modern h/w technologies and showcasing product performance for technical marketing deliverables (benchmarks, white papers, demos, etc.) Look into emerging and upcoming Azure SKUs and technologies and exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). This will also include modelling, competitive analysis & benchmarks. Strengthen the engineering process to make sure that cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals. Identify improvements in supportability that enable performance analysis with a focus on cloud and on-prem platforms. Embody our culture and values
Oct 16 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Principal Software Engineer role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you!     The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models, with projects across the entire deep learning life cycle. The team spearheads the platform and innovation for Copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem including Office, Edge and Windows.     In addition, the team works on improving experiences across Microsoft’s products and services by working on high value scenarios. The Turing team has shipped capabilities across many Microsoft scenarios including AutoSuggest , semantic search in Edge Browser and Microsoft Word, quick reply on Outlook, Smart Compose features in Word, image enhancement models, recommendations, enterprise search capabilities for Microsoft Sharepoint  as well as many other features across Office, Bing, and Xbox.     These new experiences are powered by a large-scale deep learning-based enterprise search and question-answering systems, which process billions-to-trillions of data items and serve millions of end users in millisecond latency.   We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a variety of skills and areas of expertise, from backend infrastructure of large-scale systems to microservices and front-end development. If you share our passion of building innovated products and utilizing the power of machine learning in large-scale real-world situations for the benefit of our customers, we would love to consider your application.     Read more about our team’s work here: https://turing.microsoft.com     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you'll be responsible for and will engage in:   Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.   Building large-scale high-performant distributed system to improve experience across Microsoft products.   Design system through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.   Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.    Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.   Working with big data by training, extending, and shipping the capability of deep learning models to provide compelling experiences across our products.   Working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of Microsoft products that use our deep learning technology.  
Oct 16 Finance
Controller - Centralized Surface Planning
Redmond, WA $167,100 Microsoft Consumer Sales Organization (CSO) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, under two Microsoft Customer Solution Areas: (1) Devices and Creativity covering Surface, Office and Windows and (2) Gaming covering Xbox Hardware, Content & Services. The CSO team partners with internal stakeholders and external partners to delight customers and maximize mutual business results (revenue, margin, market share) maintaining the highest ethical, compliance and security standards throughout.   Consumer Sales Finance (CSF) is a truly global finance team which has inclusion, culture and talent development as core values. CSF look at the Consumer business end-to-end work with several business stakeholders in providing financial expertise to drive & guide the business - we work with Marketing to align on success measures for our product categories, with Supply & Operations to ensure we have the right product in the right place, with Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy. We collaborate with related finance functions (Engineering Group, Corporate Finance, WW Incentive Compensation) to land financial plans which reflect CSO’s contribution to Microsoft’s overall goals and which chart our growth path in both existing and emerging businesses. We manage the CSO organization’s Rhythm of Business (ROB) and are custodians of the profit and loss (P&L). We work with Regional finance to bring the voice of customers & partners to life in our analysis & plans.   Consumer Sales Finance FP&A team are seeking a Controller - Centralized Surface Planning with finance and business acumen, to lead and evolve the centralized planning function for our Surface Consumer business. You will partner with the Worldwide Product Category team, Surface Engineering Group (EG) and Surface Regional and HQ Finance teams to evolve the centralized planning framework for the Surface Consumer business. You will own the driver-based models, which standardize how we look at the business and will focus on deepening our insights and planning agility in the Hardware space. You develop an approach which is adaptable for both planning and forecast purposes, and can scale to support the varying granularity needs across our Regions. You will collaborate deeply with EG and Demand Planning (Supply Chain) teams to form a unified planning view and provide thought leadership for our Surface finance & business communities in assessing opportunities and exposures. As part of this you will have a strategic role as you work closely with Category and EG on preparing new launches and validating long range assumption. This role is Global in scope, and you will have the opportunity to interact with both our corporate & regional teams and with finance, business & operations stakeholders. The successful candidate should exhibit deep passion for our consumer business, process & analytical skills, agility in managing complexity, and a growth mindset in everything we do.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     People Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work across communities and teams to continually evolve our Surface Consumer planning framework to better meet their needs. Leverage the work of others: Proactively seek to understand how the best practices in the Gaming Hardware planning space can be applied to Surface Consumer. Work with Gaming Planning controller to solve common problems in consistent ways. Role modelling our values: Be a role model for our Microsoft values and ethical behaviors. Appreciate the cultural nuances and richness of working in a global role. Seek diversity of opinion and contribute to an inclusive environment in all interactions.   Prioritize Continue to evolve the Surface Consumer Planning Framework to deliver on the Centralized Planning value proposition – Increase accuracy where it matters, Reduce detail where it doesn’t, Give time back to Category and Regional Teams Maintain, develop & evolve the Planning Framework – continue to evolve our standardized driver-based model so it maintains pace with the evolution of the business and stakeholder needs. Use it to drive a common and quantified understanding of the factors impacting our Surface plans. Continually anticipate “what is coming next?” and build in agility by design to respond to changing requirements / business priorities. Build connective tissue with related planning processes - collaborate with EG Finance to build on their planning models and to evolve our respective frameworks in tandem. Understand and connect to Supply Chain operations / Demand planning process and PC Market analytics and put in place the collaboration rhythms to ensure all these forward-looking processes in synch. Sustainable and Scalable: Scalable: Recognize the nuances in focus areas by Region and identify how the core modelling framework can be adapted accordingly. Sustainable: Leverage our solutions partners to independently manage the regular roll-over, refresh, recon activities of this business-critical infrastructure. Consider how machine learning and AI can be applied to improve accuracy & stability. Deliver informed Revenue Adjustment(Rev Adj) planning. Work with EG and Category teams to ensure a clear and common understanding of our Margin optimization and Rev Adj programs across regions. Model rev adj requirements in tandem with Revenue & Volumes and ensure Regional recipients are clear on underlying assumptions and flexibility therein. Partnership Be a thought-leader for your Surface Consumer Leadership team and EG partners. Understand the interconnected Surface / Personal Computer (PC) business – partner with Windows teams to understand the full breadth of the PC market, including impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) PCs, revised configurations, etc. and the implications for Surface Consumer. Reflect this in our modelling frameworks. Trusted advisor providing independent risk / opportunities assessments: Help Devices and Creativity (DC) Leadership team and the EG Teams have a common understanding of the Surface targets from a CSO perspective. Provide independent driver-based risk / opportunity assessments covering both revenue and margin which drive productive discussions with all stakeholders and focus attention on most impactful areas. Take a strategic role as you work closely with category and EG on preparing new launches and validating long range assumptions. Nurture Field Insights: Work with WW Category to build effective Regional listening mechanisms which EG and DC Leadership leverage to create appropriately plans for our business and proactively address concern areas. Incorporate Direct Sales in these mechanisms. Seamless partnership with the WW Category team and Category Controller: Embrace the reality that the dynamic nature of the Surface Consumer business means performance and planning discussions sometimes merge and act as one team be proactively keeping each other informed.   Protect Be informed: Complete all required training in a timely manner. Be alert to elements of targets setting or forecasting which could increase the risk of incompliant behaviors and proactively voice those concerns. If in doubt, ask. Be secure: Prevent confidential product roadmap details with utmost confidentiality. Accuracy: Planning accuracy is proven out in controllable variances of < 2%. Connectivity: EG and CSO finance are working as one team with complimentary planning approaches. No disconnects with related planning processes – EG, Retail Partner planning, Supply Chain, Product roadmap, Console Market intelligence. Scalability: Regional and Category feedback indicate continuous satisfaction with planning process stability and time back. Sustainability: FD&E and RAS utilized to full capacity in supporting Surface planning infrastructure.   Other  Embody our culture and values  
Oct 16 Design & Creative
Senior Product Designer (Microsoft Teams)
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft Teams is a product that serves hundreds of millions around the world and has seen unprecedented growth in the recent years.    Our design team is a highly collaborative group of user researchers, product and visual designers. We value creativity, open idea sharing, and having fun while we work. Most of all, we’re motivated by our millions of users because we want to build a product they lov e .     We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define and create compelling experiences that empower teams to achieve more together.  In this role, y ou will partner with passionate people to shape the direction of meetings and large events.   You will work with other designers, PMs, and engineers to create forward-thinking designs that are scenario driven and meet business goals. At the core of this role, you will identify user-centered design patterns, establish scenarios, place designs into user context and create interactions that align to those requirements.    We are looking for a Senior Product Designer that can conceptualize the big picture as well as drive detailed design development for collaboration and communications user experiences. You have a history of innovative thinking, using design to drive new ideas , and the ability to help others to make the right design decisions.      Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Deliver   world-class interaction designs and design systems from initial concept through to shipping   Create and manage design s for multiple feature areas. Help s olve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways, blending brand personality, visual, motion , and sound to create delightful experiences.   Create and assess design s olution s based on user research data and user goals. Produce design visualizations to help everyone understand what the best experience should be: storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision pieces. Work closely and constructively with product management, visual and interaction designers, editors, engineers and user researchers to iterate and deliver flawlessly. Contribute to product planning alongside a cross-functional team. Align with partner teams across Microsoft to achieve experiential consistency and bring unity to our features. Frame problems holistically, set context at the right altitude, and bring alignment across disciplines to move the product forward. Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business and user goals.  
Oct 16 Finance
Consumer Finance Revenue Controller
Redmond, WA $147,550 We are currently recruiting for a Consumer Finance Revenue Controller to join our team!    Microsoft Consumer Sales Organisation (CSO) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, under 2 Microsoft Solution Areas: Gaming covering Xbox Hardware and Services and Devices and Creativity covering Surface, Office and Windows.   The CSO team partners with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action. As any finance organization in Microsoft, we: Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally. Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a partner and shareholder point of view in a compliant way. Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities CSO Finance is a truly global finance team highly engaged in developing its talent and have them evolve in a moving environment. CSO Finance spans all finance functions; we span working with Marketing to drive our product categories, with Supply and Ops to ensure we have the right product in the right places, Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy, manage the organisation’s RoB and are custodians of the P&L. We chart our Growth path in existing businesses and in net new areas for the company, whilst prioritizing creating a more Inclusive Microsoft across our products, our culture and our marketing and every customer engagement.   The Consumer Finance Revenue Controller role is an excellent opportunity to be at the heart of a dynamic business at a critical point of evolution. You will play an instrumental role in orchestrating how we forecast, measure, monitor the business and drive clear business insights, that help us drive and grow the business providing the building blocks that allow the Finance and Business Orgs identify and critically assess investment opportunities optimizing between margin & share to drive profitable sustainable growth engines and shape the landing of our strategy. You will work with diverse teams in matrix organization. The successful candidate should exhibit deep passion for our consumer business, a high degree of agility and innovation, transformational thinking and growth mindset in everything we do.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world. Work across the CSO both Finance and Business teams to drive consistent revenue reporting partnering across Consumer Sales Finance teams and Business Operations to land solutions. Drive the revenue outlook process end to end, managing timing, process, tool through to report out. Drive process and tool efficiency across the teams providing for a seamless, standard approach across all groups. . Continually review revenue reporting capability, understand usage and use the insights to inform the go forward action plan whether that be report changes, replacement or training requirements. Support business critical ad hoc data and analytics requirements, driving a common understanding of what is required and driving to solutions. Not just work within established process but recognizes opportunities to fundamentally improve how we operate and acts as an agent of change, using both formal and informal influence channels to mobilize others. Simplify the complex and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills. Provide high-quality narrative of performance all up for executive meetings. Conceptualizes and designs new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions Drives improvements in data management through automation. Applies understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and to provide greater depth of analysis. Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work through others and across teams, aligning people and resources, establishing high standards of performance, and creating a climate of mutual accountability that delivers expected business results. Role modelling our values: Be a role model for the behaviors and standards expected by creating a culture where talent can excel, and diversity of backgrounds and experiences is present and valued.
Oct 15 Hardware Engineering
Senior AI Hardware Architect
Redmond, WA $183,700 Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?        Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.  Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.         The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services.  This role is for a highly motivated Senior AI Hardware Architect with a solid background in neural networks and hardware implementation. You will be involved with both model development, data type analysis, ML/HW co-design.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.    In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  Analyse Hardware Architecture for AI workloads. Architecting large scale systems which support breakthrough performance AI workloads to shape    Azure’s AI infrastructure roadmap.     Benchmark GPUs and other AI hardware IPs. Drive NN model/HW codesign.     Understand business critical AI workloads/applications. Developing and analysing novel NN architectures. E mbody our culture and values.  
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Ads Brain team is a technology core of Microsoft rapidly growing digital advertising business. The team’s mission is to create room & horsepower for large scale deep learning applications in Microsoft Ads and beyond.   We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer interested in deep learning systems and algorithms.   This role is available in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA.   The team is responsible for applying large scale deep learning technologies to improve our advertising business, including resource management of tens of thousands of powerful GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) and billions of tokens of various OpenAI LLM (Large Language Models), driving large scale deep learning applications, serving online real-time (millisecond level) GPU model serving, model performance optimization, high throughput deep learning pipeline etc. We have a unique position in bridging state-of-art GPU & Deepl Learning technologies with business-critical applications. Online Advertising is one of the fastest growing multi-billion-dollar business on the Internet today. Search engines, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day. Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to grow its share of this market by providing the advertising industry with the state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Innovations to advance deep learning systems and algorithms. Identify new and upcoming areas for improvement by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Drive cutting-edge system prototypes and assist in preparation for production deployment. Discover/solve impactful technical problems, advance state-of-the-art technologies, and translate ideas into production. Leverage cutting-edge open-source project to advance deep learning applications. Create deep connections within our communities, focus on increasing representation, retaining, and growing our current team members, while fostering awareness and growth through an inclusive environment. Embody our Culture &  Values.
Oct 15 Software Engineering
​​Principal Software Engineer​
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further . This is a world of more possibilities , more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.     Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.     ​ ​ Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides  a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. ​ ​ We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served .     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Guide and support the team in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and high-performance data pipelines and architectures.   Develop and implement strategies for scaling data infrastructure to support increasing data volumes and complexity. Ensure projects are aligned with business objectives and delivered efficiently and effectively.   Work closely with other teams to ensure data engineering initiatives support wider company goals. Facilitate communication and coordination between teams for seamless project integration.   Lead the adoption of new tools and practices that can enhance the capabilities and performance of the team.​   Your responsibilities will include guiding the team through technical challenges, fostering innovation, and driving projects to improve data processing capabilities. Embody our culture and values  
Oct 15 Analytics
Business Insights and Analytics Manager
Redmond, WA $161,500 We use AI powered platforms to create leading digital marketing experiences and journeys in the Consumer Growth Engine and Integrated Marketing team (CGE-IM). The analytics team supports consumer growth with insights, analytical tools and processes that inform our CGE-IM efforts. Our mission is to provide reliable, integrated, actionable and data-driven insights to surpass our goals.   As Business Insights and Analytics Manager you will be required to generate insights across marketing channels, presenting findings and recommendations to CGE-IM and partners on the impact of business and marketing actions. You will apply business understanding, excellent data analytic skills and teamwork to produce analyses using various tools, methods, and processes for complicated customer journeys. Armed with insights, you will lead and actively participate in discussions that aim to drive continuous improvement, efficiency, and success. This role demands initiative, effective storytelling, advanced knowledge and experience in marketing and customer analytics, including measurement techniques and experimentation. Experience in tools such as PowerBI, SQL, MS Ads preferred.   Please note this position requires being onsite. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. As you develop an understanding of the business across multiple areas, you’ll anticipate business problems. You’ll also use appropriate data to address business needs, identifying and taking steps to solve data issues and gaps. You will determine appropriate analytical tools and techniques, then execute analyses and make actionable recommendations. You’ll also critically evaluate assumptions about data and analysis methods, and provide feedback on analytical tools. You will develop presentations using dashboards, reports, data visualizations, and more to tell stories of analyses. As you do so, you’ll ensure presentations provide information accurately, clearly, and appropriately. You will determine the factors and/or data types to include in evaluations, accounting for risks. You’ll analyze and report results, and identify relevant recommendations and/or connections to other work. By working across teams, you’ll deepen expertise in data sources, methodologies, tools, and processes. You’ll then recommend efficiency improvements to core analytical and reporting work, and evaluate the viability of automated reporting and analysis methods. Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 15 Marketing
Digital Experience Manager
Redmond, WA $133,200 The Consumer Growth Engine (CGE) is a digitally centric performance marketing team focused on delighting customers with relevant, timely, personalized communications to help them grow excitement in purchasing and getting more value out of Microsoft products and services. This role is an opportunity with high impact and visibility, and you will play a key role in building relationships with customers through marketing, innovating marketing strategies, and ensuring that our customers have a connected experience wherever they are.   As a Digital Experience Manager, you will be instrumental in crafting exceptional customer journeys within the in-product marketing channel while leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Consumer Growth Engine (CGE), one of the largest-scale consumer marketing engines globally, utilizes placements across Windows and Edge to create extensive promotions, known as in-product, reaching up to 220 billion impressions annually. Your primary focus will be identifying key moments that matter and customizing content and messaging to engage customers, promoting acquisition and retention of Microsoft 365 (M365) subscription products. Additionally, you will be responsible for sharing results with business stakeholders and leaders, achieving key performance metrics related to customer conversion, engagement, and retention across the funnel. The Digital Experience Manager will oversee the In-Product channel for M365, managing the allocated share of voice within the channel, which includes the responsibilities below.   Please note this position requires being onsite. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. ​​Build strategies for M365 campaigns within the in-product channel ​Own the management of the in-product channel to ensure that all committed M365 targets and metrics are reached within the fiscal year ​Create MBR content to share with M365 leadership each month on the CGE in product contribution to business metrics Become an expert on in-product execution and build marketing campaigns on in-product AI tooling ​Partner closely with the Customer Journey lead and other channel leads to create a comprehensive and customer-driven journey to meet business needs​ Embody our culture  and  values
Oct 15 Supply Chain
Senior Procurement Manager
Redmond, WA $167,100 Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. We are responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.       Within CO+I, the strategic Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Microsoft Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill the critical role of Senior Procurement Manager who will engage in Long Lead Equipment Labor Execution.     In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.       This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.    Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.    This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to ( 50)% .            Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   The role is responsible for partnering with the broader Global Supply Chain teams including Planning & Analytics, Supplier Quality and overall Site Projects team to meet the on-time delivery for a large, complex capital project.  This role will partner with workgroups to drive strategy development and compliance through supplier selection, supplier selection and award, and contract management.      ·                Procurement   o   Creates, aligns, and maintains sourcing strategies to continuously re-evaluate and improve Microsoft procurement of Field Services Labor for Long-Lead Equipment.     o   Drives strategic initiatives and helps facilitate for appropriate rhythm of business (ROB) process   o   Supports standards in negotiation strategies for load banking equipment.    o   Assists in supplier selection, volume, capacity, contracting and performance management. Ensures alignment to Microsoft business goals, throughout.    o   Understand industry contracting norms and Microsoft contracting requirements; participates and tracks negotiation and contracts that meet business goals.    o   Proactively segments suppliers, utilizes engagement programs and analytics to improve performance and achieve business goals.    o   Serves as contact point between suppliers and multiple regions across one or more complex purchasing categories, develops and executes supplier account plans detailing priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period.      ·                Field Service Technician/Engineer Management (OEM):   o   Manage and oversee Supplier labor management in coordination with General Contractor, Scheduling Teams, and Internal Planning Teams to align schedules and deliverables.   o   Manage schedule compliance and escalations from field team to support installation of LLE Equipment as required to drive efficiencies between Supplier and General Contractor    o   Negotiate and manage any change orders for overtime, schedule compression and acceleration as needed.      ·                Change Order Management:     o        Monitor and mitigate the impact of change orders to the project, and partners cross-functionally to resolve/escalate accordingly.     o        Act as the commercial Subject Matter Expert and prescribe the appropriate entitlement and justification for all change orders.    o        Negotiate Claims with the detailed understanding of the contractual conditions and partner with regiona l claims to settle or escalate.        ·       Supplier Engagement & Performance:    o        Manage post award delivery scheduling ensuring on-time delivery performance and reporting for site.    o        Coordinate any scheduling delays from Field Service Labor to relevant stakeholders.   o        Oversee supplier performance and interface cross functionally with both internal and external partners to proactively resolve issues.    o        Manage technical risk management of design including timelines, SLA/KPI’s to ensure site timelines.    o        Serves as a conta ct point between supplier and internal teams to execute complex post award alignment between suppliers and Microsoft as appropriate.   o        Review available labor headcount available with LLE suppliers and actual headcount assigned to each site. o        Align resource constraints, attrition, and on-going recruitin g programs o        Manage and oversee all site related escalation s related to labor needs   Other: Embody our culture and values              
Oct 15 Product Management
Senior Product Manager - Delivery Excellence
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $183,700 Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans by ensuring the highest standards of operational excellence. Through our deep engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and optimize operational processes to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work. We’re on a mission to make support experiences frictionless – by making it easy for customers to receive the support they need, when and how they need it, throughout their Azure lifecycle. Azure Engineering Direct (AED) pioneers transformational support to expedite Azure adoption and value realization. Advanced Cloud Engineers (ACEs) walk with our AED customers on their Azure journey, so we meet them where they are and help them the way they want to be helped. Ensuring the success of ACEs is critical to AED. With over 200+ (and growing) ACEs across 3 continents, they are what makes AED a success and ensure that our customer’s Azure journey is frictionless. Thanks to the support ACEs provide - AED has grown very rapidly these last 18 months. They have overseen exponential growth of AED customers Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR) and we’re only just getting started.   The AED Senior Product Manager - Delivery Excellence owns driving excellence in building world class support delivery processes, tools and framework. As the Senior Technical Program Manager responsible for ACE success, you will oversee the design, build and successful adoption of processes and tools, ensuring that our customers are driving toward ever-increasing Azure adoption with ease. You will not only enable AED operational efficiency but also bring visibility to how ACEs deliver support, manage changes and communicate with our customers. Your ability to partner with stakeholders to identify and define success measures and ensure compliance with the AED customer experience journey is important; caring deeply about the lived experiences of ACEs, and ultimately our Azure customers is critical.   This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In this role, you will own and drive the success of AED customers in partnership with ACE delivery managers to enable their ACEs to provide world class support for these customers. Key responsibilities include: Drive delivery excellence by industry-standard best practices and infusing consistency and rigor across internal and external partners to create sustained impact for our customers. Serve as the primary interface for developing and implementing a comprehensive delivery excellence framework for Azure customers. This includes designing, optimizing, and standardizing operational processes, selecting and deploying effective tooling, ensuring seamless execution, and maintaining a robust knowledge base. Drive continuous improvement in operational efficiency. Monitor the overall health and performance of operational delivery teams to ensure operations meet or exceed defined success measures. Drive strategic Delivery Excellence reviews with clear actions and owners. Create documentation such as policies, procedures, workflows and user guides. Bring visibility to how we deliver support, manage change and communications. Identify and bridge communication gaps between internal teams and across the Microsoft ecosystem to proactively mitigate risks that could impact operations. This includes collaborating with partners to document and effectively escalate processes, fostering a collaborative environment. Collaborate with technology teams to develop and implement solutions to proactively identify and resolve potential operational issues before they impact customers. Lead special projects aimed at improving operational efficiency as well as driving improvements to Azure services. Other: Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Principal Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Customer feedback is the fuel that helps AI get better with each passing day! If you are an ambitious and technically proven hands-on engineering manager with a deep passion for your customers & partners, we've got an amazing opportunity for you!        Thousands of product builders at Microsoft are building AI powered capabilities in our big products like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Windows, Surface, Microsoft 365 (aka Office), Outlook etc. They depend heavily on a company-wide Microsoft Feedback platform to discover and act on the most impactful customer feedback from dozens of internal and external feedback sources. They also depend on the Feedback Platform to connect with customers to gather more information and to successfully close the loop with customers once feedback has been acted upon.       The Feedback Triage Experiences team in Redmond within the Customer Success Engineering org. builds the apps that enable these product teams to leverage feedback at scale from millions of users to build products with high customer satisfaction. The team is embarking on a journey to deeply leverage AI to radically transform the current offerings and to seamlessly integrate user flows across multiple systems. We are looking for a transformative Principal Engineering Manager to lead this Feedback Triage Experiences engineering team.        This is a critical role with immense opportunity for impact.     Please note this role does not provide international relocations, requires 50%+ time presence in the Redmond office and requires working during Pacific Standard Time work hours. Partner with Product Management to establish vision, strategy, OKRs, roadmaps and plans for providing AI powered Feedback Triage Experiences .     Work hands-on with the team & co-dev partners to design & develop the teams offerings.   Mature the team culture to meet the growing business demands as we scale the platform across the company.   Create a healthy, energetic & inclusive environment where everyone on the team can do their best work.   Collaborate with senior stakeholders across disciplines and org boundaries at Microsoft.   Demonstrate Microsoft's leadership principles and Microsoft's culture and values every single day.   Team management and work backlog management.  
Oct 15 Administration
Business Administrator
Redmond, WA If you have initiative, drive, and are looking to be part of a fun and energetic team, this job is for you! The AI Platform Org in C+AI is looking for an experienced and energetic Business Administrator to be responsible for providing excellent administrative and project support.   Candidates must have excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills along with the ability to work independently and professionally with all levels in the organization.  You must be resourceful and able to deal with ambiguity, possess solid project management and problem-solving skills, be able to work effectively under pressure and within short time constraints, prioritize while multi-tasking, and be flexible in the performance of the job responsibilities.     We are looking for a Business Administrator to support our Experimentation Platform (ExP) and AIP Analytics teams of 100+ Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Program Managers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation through trustworthy experimentation. Most major products such as Bing, Cortana, Edge, Exchange, Identity, MSN, Office client, Office online, Photos, Skype, Speech, Store, Teams, Visual Studio Code, Windows, Xbox use our platform ExP to run trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments – aka A/B tests. ExP team members regularly contribute to conferences through publications and tutorials.   Along with supporting the ExP and AIP Analytics teams, this role will also assist with team support of the AI Frameworks team which is comprised of engineers.   We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Supporting the Vice President of ExP. Including calendar management with attention to details, accuracy, timeliness, conflict resolution and alignment to the leader’s priorities and commitments Planning and coordination of complex domestic travel Timely and accurate reconciliation of expenses Partnering and cross-collaborating with AI Platform Administrative team as well as many parts of the C+AI organization. Partnering with HR, Staffing, and Finance as well as facilities for space management. Managing headcount, tracking open positions, creating requisitions, onboarding new hires, and keeping up to date with Headcount related tools. Maintaining distribution lists. Managing space allocation, anticipating possible compression issues, scheduling individual moves, and assisting with group moves for team members. Team support including space management, office moves, new hire set up and onboarding and procurement of equipment and supplies for ExP and AI Frameworks team in the US and Canada. Purchasing equipment for new hires and refreshes. Track assets, cost centers, PC Recycled assets, and equipment transfers. Managing operating budget and spend, identifying near-overages and issues. Partnering with Finance to ensure no reporting discrepancies. Acting as final approver on all team expense reports, ensuring coding accuracy. Organizing and planning off-sites and morale events at the team level. Cross-collaborating, planning, and providing support for org-wide events including Town Hall Meetings, org morale events, and other events as needed. Understand the rhythm of the business (ROB) and ship cycles in order to most effectively plan events and meetings, anticipate spend, and provide support based on the business needs at the time. Experience working with a global team and cultural awareness Embody our culture and values
Oct 15 Supply Chain
Senior Network Spares Sourcing Manager
Redmond, WA $147,550 Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!   CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide. Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Sustainability & Security (CS4) organization within CSCP manages sourcing and supply of IT hardware for the data centers.   We are looking for a Senior Network Spares Sourcing Manager (Individual Contributor) to join our team and help build sustainable advantages through the supply chain. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Relocation assistance is available for this role.   Develop and implement supply management strategies for network spare parts Collaborate with cross-functional teams and suppliers to understand the diverse needs of the business and align sourcing strategies accordingly Participate in supplier business reviews and drive actions/insights for spare parts  Utilize data analytics and reporting tools to drive spares strategy and optimize supply chain performance Ensure compliance with company policies and industry regulations Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 15 Business Operations
Senior Business Manager
Redmond, WA $214,300 We are seeking a dynamic, highly motivated, and personable Senior Business Manager to join the legal team supporting Microsoft's AI (MAI), Strategic Missions & Technologies (SMT), and Technology & Research (T&R) organizations. These groups drive a variety of key initiatives across Microsoft, including AI model and systems development, consumer-focused AI product development , strategic technical partnerships , and broad-scale fundamental research.   Business Operations & Rhythm of Business:   Serve as an extension of the CVP , as a force multiplier , to elevate the organization and help the team work better together.   Guide the leadership team in managing and integrating planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and cross-functional integration across the broader organization.   Oversee the development and execution of the Rhythm of Business (ROB), collaborating with senior leaders to achieve key outcomes and align organizational objectives with overarching goals. Manage business review cadences effectively.   Partner with Finance and senior leadership to design, approve, and manage budgets and forecasting plans. Develop metrics to track financial performance and identify corrective actions to enhance business outcomes. Align headcount strategy with organizational objectives . Identify operational gaps and opportun i ties to streamline and create new efficient processes.   Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive the creation and execution of operational plans, ensuring seamless coordination across teams.   Ensure organizational accountability in executing core business activities, providing clarity in ambiguous situations to drive effective prioritization and decision-making for leaders.   Drive internal comms and business updates to provide visibility and transparency on key developments and notable events for the organization .     Strategy Execution & Activation:   Monitor team health, support leaders in addressing cultural issues, and champion diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives.   Leverage a deep understanding of leadership goals and business strategies to align activities with strategic objectives . Assist in key business management areas such as goal setting, team culture, budget/finance, and communications.   Synthesize information into actionable insights to inform business decisions, providing strategic advice and fostering leadership influence. Support people management as needed, and lead the implementation of organizational changes, including employee data management and skilling plans.   Utilize relationships and key partnerships to influence strategic decisions, ensure alignment, and support leadership initiatives. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and manage relationships with senior leaders, synthesizing input and developing action plans.     Special Projects & Programs:   Lead cross-functional projects to address evolving business needs and drive complex initiatives. May serve as a project/program manager to ensure successful execution of strategic efforts requiring coordination across multiple disciplines and business units.   Develop and deliver presentations and messaging on the team’s mission and strategic priorities. Provide executive-level communication tailored to a variety of internal and external audiences, ensuring alignment with business goals.    
Oct 15 Product Management
Senior Product Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our team! Azure Edge+Platform [E+P] is responsible for Microsoft’s Operating Systems, IoT and Edge products, Engineering Systems, and Health Platforms that span cloud-to-edge and edge-to-cloud. E+P is the platform team for the company and the foundation upon which virtually every Microsoft product and service, like Azure, Xbox, HoloLens, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams, is built. E+P products and services enable engineers to build out, deploy, manage, monitor, and secure Azure, Windows, and the rest of Microsoft.   Within Azure E+P the SKY team is accountable to improve engineering efficiency, service reliability, resiliency, and quality, by reducing the complexity of infrastructure solutions and tooling Microsoft Engineers have to work with.     We are looking for Senior Product Manager with a passion for customer focused solutions that solve real-world problems and empower teams across the company. In this role, you will shape the evolution of Azure infrastructure in areas like Network Traffic management and Throttling Algorithm the company needs for critical “out of the box” protections . You will work with cross-functional stakeholders across Microsoft to gather requirements, establish scenarios and develop product plans.   Work with cross team stakeholders to gain alignment and build cross team product roadmaps.   Work with engineering to design integrated customer solutions for technical needs related to 1 st party Security, Compliance, and Standards .   Contribut e to program goals by prioritizing features/feature areas and o rchestrating integrati o n efforts for development and implementation .   Develop staging and implementation plans for piloting & releases .   Self-driven to s tay informed of governance programs and processes.   Vali date use-case and scenario outcomes for customers and ensure we meet business goals .   Act as a technical advisor to educate and evangelize feature/feature areas with customers and partners while ensur ing systems meet quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment.    Contribu te to customer supportability experience s and provid e/update documentation as necessary.   Effectively communicate with partners and stakeholders for planning and progress on initiatives using data.    Other    Embody our  Culture   &   Values    
Oct 15 Marketing
Global Product Launch Lead
Redmond, WA $133,200 Are you passionate about connecting customers through digital retail storefronts? Our Microsoft Digital Stores are engagement points that reach tens of millions of customers across hundreds of markets on our Web, Xbox and Windows platforms , and we’re looking for a Global Product Launch Lead to help us tell our story.     Microsoft Store (Direct Digital Sales, DDS) is the public retail face of Microsoft , where every individual, community and business can directly experience all that is possible with Microsoft.  To fuel our continued growth, we are seeking a Global Product Launch Lead to drive the launch experience for our consumer hardware product portfolio across all of our digital storefronts .  You will be responsible for helping to grow the Microsoft Store online business through best-in-class execution of global first party product launches . You will help drive flawless product launches , coordinating with internal stakeholders across the organization with a passion for customer experiences and attention to detail.  You will use data, insight, and industry best practices to drive excitement and sales during pivotal launch moments when the world is watching.  If this excites you, apply today!    Our Team:  The Global Device Launch Team (GDLT) is a customer-focused group that promotes a diverse & inclusive culture. We are highly collaborative across our lines of business and approach our work with curiosity and hunger to learn allowing us to implement new, relevant, and exciting experiences for our fans.   What we will do for you: Champion your successes at every level of our leadership and make career development a focused and consistent priority. Empower you with the opportunity to gain new experiences and improve upon your strengths to gain career defining skill sets. Support who you are as your authentic self in a diverse and inclusive working environment. Global product launches Coordination with partners across the organization, from marketing to buying to Site Operations. Support local markets with locally relevant assets and content. Orchestrate and deliver to all levels of DDS the full online customer journey plan, including storytelling, managing the funnel, and optimizing the experience across all owned and operated pages on all platforms. Deliver rich and detailed launch communications ensuring flawless execution across the entire DDS organization. Deliver post-launch scorecard, post-mortems, and Correction of Errors: Review of highlights/lowlights, identification of issue root causes, solution implementation and plans to improve. Own launch communication with DDS Leadership team on risks to launch as well as precise tic-toc of launch motions leading into go-live. Innovations that increase conversion Voice of authority on customer experiences, including strategic vision, best practices, identification of areas for improvement Support of innovation programs, features, and experience to improve the customer experience. Collaboration with UX design and engineering teams in building requirements to enable great customer experiences across all platforms and in partnership with key stakeholders outside of DDS. This includes needed new features in templates, navigational elements, wayfinding, etc. Knowledge of product performance, strategic alignment with buyers, consultant on global promotions where appropriate. Product marketing online expertise and guidance Ongoing coordination with internal marketing teams building and maintaining primary relationships as the recognized Microsoft Store Launch Leader with PMG Marketing. Create feedback loop with global field teams including regular communication on product performance and new opportunities ensuring they are supported in their own management of their business. Ensure Store value proposition are supported online and brought to life. Direct the activities of a core group of Global Launch Project Management vendors, providing guidance and direction, and is accountable for quality of their work. Project management over a variety of tasks with varying deadlines and priorities. Knows how to manage time and get things done in a fast-paced sometimes ambiguous environment. Ability to tell stories that are compelling to customers via product and merchandising messaging and assets, all while remaining true to the Microsoft brand and accessibility excellence. This includes partnering with other teams to create seamless journeys across partner sites, email, social, etc. Build effective cross-sell and up-sell experiences across all platforms through the complete customer journey, all the way through purchase, to ensure customers have the complete solutions they need. Ensure site, promotions, etc. are working properly, and activating the right escalations to ensure issues are resolved in a timely and efficient manner during time of launch and hypercare period post go-live.
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.   The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.   Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning model. Our Azure Machine Learning Training and Finetuning Team is at the forefront of this mission, working on groundbreaking projects for finetuning of Azure OpenAI and OSS models. We collaborate closely with research institutions, industry leaders, and organizations worldwide to create innovative solutions that impact millions of users.   As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will drive the design, development, and support of the platform that powers Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI. You’ll work across teams to help make the whole organization successful.   We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond..   Design, implement, and support scalable, reliable, high-performance services Write clean and concise code with unit tests Design, implement, and support new features as well as extend existing systems Investigate live site issues and implement and deploy fixes Participate in an on-call rotation Drive engineering quality via code reviews and design discussions Embody our  culture and  values
Oct 15 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Senior Researcher
Redmond, WA $183,700 Our team in Microsoft Azure AI Platform is at the forefront of developing multimodal AI technologies that combine language, vision, and other sensory inputs to power Microsoft AI products.   We offer these advanced models as services for both internal and external applications, driving innovation across the ecosystem. We collaborate extensively with OpenAI and numerous Microsoft product teams, including Copilot and Office.   We are seeking a Senior Researcher who is passionate, creative, and analytical individual contributor with a background in large-scale multimodal modeling.   In this role, you will focus on adapting and grounding multimodal models for product-driven scenarios, integrating text, images, and potentially other data types to create powerful and adaptable AI solutions.   Your work will involve developing deep learning techniques to enhance custom copilot experiences by efficiently adapting large-scale multimodal models. This includes a range of adaptation strategies such as supervised fine-tuning, multimodal fusion, and post-training with Reinforcement Learning.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Development of multimodal model customization and large-scale training, integrating language, vision, and other data modalities Data preparation, training, and evaluation of multimodal customization tasks Collaboration with Microsoft product groups to integrate multimodal AI solutions across applications Multimodal research and innovation; staying updated with the latest advancements in deep learning, multimodal fusion, and cross-modal interactions. Other: Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 15 Program Management
Hardware Program Manager
Redmond, WA $153,550   Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide.   We are looking for a Hardware Program Manager  to join the team.   As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.   Drive virtual teams of functional leads including members from hardware and software engineering, sourcing, supply chain, networking and datacenter operations from documenting a clear Plan-of-Record (POR) for the new product development to leading the project team to meet stated milestones.    Technical Program Management for new Cloud hardware development.  Drive the development, planning & execution of a holistic cross functional product development and/or launch strategy.  Provides technical leadership and identify technical risks.   Collaborate with internal and external technology development partners to form a cohesive development plan.   Have an in-depth understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones, deliverables, and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure.  Leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.   Responsible for effective communication and escalation of risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.   Hold accountability for team and most or all portions of the work to deliver best in class architecture solutions.     The ability to engage subject matter experts across disciplines to deliver the best outcomes.    Conducts risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and mitigation of risks, recovery from risks.    Communicate to and regularly interact with senior leadership , highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions.   Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate .   Ensure cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards development milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure development, launch, and deployments.   Use program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of program plan of record to stakeholders.     Monitor and measure engineering impact, performance results and process efficiency. Apply AI tools to stream line processes.      Other    Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $128,250 Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.       Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.    The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.          At Microsoft, we can offer you a strong team , exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.          The right candidate for this job (is):    Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services.   Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them.   Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes.   Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms -up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.   Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.   Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Design, develop, and deliver engineering solutions that serve and protect O365 government clouds.   Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.   Proactively identify and reduce issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions.   Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases.   Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability.   Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them.  
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   Do you have experience creating high-volume, low-latency mission-critical services? Are you passionate about security and enjoy working in a diverse, inclusive global team? Does being part of a mature DevOps organization that owns the customer experience excite you? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you. The Trust and Security Services (TSS) engineering team oversees a range of services essential to establishing trust at Microsoft. These include code signing, anti-malware scanning, and the Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (MSPKI). We face distinctive engineering challenges related to scale—processing billions of files monthly—varied workloads ranging from drivers to 4k AAA games, security both physical and logical, and compliance with standards like WebTrust. Our mission has always been at the forefront of our efforts. In an era where supply chain and security threats are continually escalating and becoming more complex, TSS services play a vital role in safeguarding our customers and partners. Our rapid growth presents an opportunity for your expertise to elevate Microsoft's trust foundation even further. Our team creates the infrastructure fabric platform that supports engineers in developing and powering service experiences.   We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for researching new areas, writing optimal code, enhancing coding standards, and shipping quickly. We follow short, frequent release cycles, allowing room for innovation in multiple areas. As a team, we welcome smart, motivated engineers with a positive attitude and a growth mindset, ready to translate ambiguity into concrete deliverables that make a significant impact for our customers   You will design, build, and operate fabric services critical to secure datacenters and high-security Azure environments, including compute provisioning, Service Fabric, service gateways, secure imaging, health agents, compliance, monitoring, and more. In this role you will gain: Independence and the freedom to innovate, the chance to experiment and base decisions on data, the opportunity to work with advanced Azure technologies and services, and a  significant scope for impact as a part of a growing team, whose services are essential to every Microsoft product.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design, develop, validate and implement the next generation of platform infrastructure that is highly secure, performant, resilient, modular, meets reliability targets, includes observability, and that enables next gen experiences. Take up end-to-end ownership of deliverables and produce viable solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend infrastructure services that deliver delightful customer experiences. Focus on building innovative user experiences and automating manual processes. Ensure the security, scalability, reliability, and performance of services in production. Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain high-quality code and solutions. Write and maintain unit tests and automated integration tests Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and practices. Responding to and mitigating any live site issues impacting customers Become part of a talented team that values diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds and be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to solving problems. Other: Embody our  Culture  and  Values            
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II with a passion for researching new areas, writing optimal code, enhancing coding standards, and shipping quickly. We follow short, frequent release cycles, allowing room for innovation in multiple areas. As a team, we welcome smart, motivated engineers with a positive attitude and growth mindset, ready to translate ambiguity into concrete deliverables that make a significant impact for our customers   Do you have experience creating high-volume, low-latency mission-critical services? Are you passionate about security and enjoy working in a diverse, inclusive global team? Does being part of a mature DevOps organization that owns the customer experience excite you? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you. The Trust and Security Services (TSS) engineering team oversees a range of services essential to establishing trust at Microsoft. These include code signing, anti-malware scanning, and the Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (MSPKI). We face distinctive engineering challenges related to scale—processing billions of files monthly—varied workloads ranging from drivers to 4k AAA games, security both physical and logical, and compliance with standards like WebTrust.   You will design, build, and operate fabric services critical to secure datacenters and high-security Azure environments, including compute provisioning, Service Fabric, service gateways, secure imaging, health agents, compliance, monitoring, and more. In this role you will gain: Independence and the freedom to innovate, the chance to experiment and base decisions on data, the opportunity to work with advanced Azure technologies and services, snd a significant scope for impact as a part of a growing team, whose services are essential to every Microsoft product.   Our mission has always been at the forefront of our efforts. In an era where supply chain and security threats are continually escalating and becoming more complex, TSS services play a vital role in safeguarding our customers and partners. Our rapid growth presents an opportunity for your expertise to elevate Microsoft's trust foundation even further. Our team creates the infrastructure fabric platform that supports engineers in developing and powering service experiences.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Design, develop, validate and implement the next generation of platform infrastructure that is highly secure, performant, resilient, modular, meets reliability targets, includes observability, and that enables next gen experiences. Take up end-to-end ownership of deliverables and produce viable solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend infrastructure services that deliver delightful customer experiences. Focus on building innovative user experiences and automating manual processes. Ensure the security, scalability, reliability, and performance of services in production. Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain high-quality code and solutions. Write and maintain unit tests and automated integration tests Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and practices. Respond to and mitigating any live site issues impacting customers Become part of a talented team that values diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds and be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to solving problems. Other: Embody our  culture  and  values    
Oct 15 Administration
Executive Business Administrator
Redmond, WA Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. As a company, Microsoft is looking to foster innovation that generates new ecosystems of inventors, partners, developers, creators, changemakers, public servants, frontline workers, and knowledge workers who, together, drive the engines of growth and opportunity in ways that benefit everyone.    Industry and Partner Solutions (IPS) is seeking an experienced Executive Business Administrator to support the CVP of Manufacturing and Mobility.    In this role, you will be self-motivated, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and professionally at all levels. The candidate will need to work effectively within short time constraints, prioritize tasks and take appropriate action , and work without significant oversight or instruction to achieve results with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.        This role requires complex scheduling skills, operational excellence, an effective use of data and business systems, as well as the given continual exposure to internal and external executive leadership, the role requires professional presence and effective communication skills.    In this role, you will have the ability to navigate ambiguity, anticipate and remove administrative roadblocks, make timely decisions across the organization, and adapt to constantly changing environments, while identifying areas to help support the business.    The role is located in Redmond, WA or Greater Seattle, WA and is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home. Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Complex schedule management, travel, and strategic time prioritization.    Demonstrate sound judgement and ability to prioritize the calendar, balancing internal, external, and executive engagement.    Demonstrate e xecutive presence and effective communicat ion to engage with Microsoft’s leadership team and external executive leadership.    End-to-end complex domestic and international travel planning, including proactive adjustments to drive efficiencies.    Work closely on aligning the Rhythm of Business processes and operations with the director’s calendar to ensure tight coordination of commitments.    Assist in the planning and execution of team meetings and events.    Flexibility to accommodate urgent schedule changes or requests that may require periodic calendar checks, as well as remotely supporting the director.   Collaboration and partnership skills with key internal stakeholders including, but not limited to: HR, Finance, CELA (Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs) , and the leadership team staff members.     Discretion in handling confidential information.    Other:  Embody our   culture   and   values    
Oct 15 Security Engineering
Security Compliance Program Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft is looking for an exceptional technical Security Compliance Program Manager to join our Security Compliance team supporting Microsoft Research .  Our mission is to enable research as the value creation engine for Microsoft by providing a comprehensive release program that enables innovation while ensuring our information and services are protected . We support research teams across the globe in driving advances in research areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health sciences, and Cryptography .       We’re looking for a self-directed technical individual who wants the challenge of being the technical security SME to come help build our team. If you enjoy being part of what’s next in research and technology and partnering with researchers engineering teams to build secure and creative solutions, then this is the job for you !       This is a trusted advisor role where you will be expected to enhance the security compliance program and evangelize security as a research enabler and differentiator. You will be working side by side with other compliance partners, conducting technical security assessments in support of company-wide compliance objectives for security controls. And, gathering requirements and building proof of concepts for improving visibility across our environments, and integrating new tools and automation for next generation security & compliance. Y ou wi ll be responsible for driving projects and solutions that help ensure that Research is align ed to our broader business needs.     The successful candidate will have a passion for Security, with a desire in data analysis and solid capabilities in software engineering. This candidate must demonstrate a proven track record of driving process, tooling and automation improvements based on data analysis. You will get to work closely with compliance SMEs, the Release Program owner s , and the best researchers around the globe , so the right individual will have a solid business acumen and be open to a collaborative growth-oriented workstyle . You will have the freedom to work independently, be thrust into ambiguous learning experiences and be empowered to drive decisions and solutions to protect this organization , so this person must be agile, willing to learn and not afraid to fail fast.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   If you think you got what it takes, and you would enjoy being part making the future, Then Apply Now!   Partner with research teams as a security subject matter expert during design/planning stages to help ensure Security requirements are designed and meet compliance objectives .   facilitate technical deep-dives and security threat model assessments to evaluate any concerns pre-release. Conduct application security reviews and penetration testing activities in support of releases   Ensure releases comply with all internal security development Lifecycle (SDL ) standards. Work with stakeholders to develop customized implementation guidelines for the division where needed   Develop tools and automation in support of review and data collection activities. Build data visualizations and dashboards in support of security compliance needs.   Handle incident response activities; coordinate teams, and help triage and handle vulnerabilities and reported events.     The individual will also be expected to contribute the following:   Understand the competitive landscape and provide proactive security guidance to teams   Identify and drive decisions by appropriately escalating security issues    Educate teams on security practices and requirements that are relevant and adoptable by researchers and engineers   Understand emerging issues and apply that in day-day work.  
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 Microsoft's M365 Core App and Data Platform is a massively scaled service that forms the backbone of M365 offerings. Our services empower businesses, educational institutions, governments, and individuals worldwide, representing more than a billion users.       We are on an ambitious journey to reimagine the way we index and understand enterprise data in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs). We are building the Semantic Fabric - a revolutionary technology designed to provide a semantic index for all enterprise data within M365. This innovative platform will deliver exceptional semantic search experiences and integrate seamlessly with LLMs for contextual understanding. This initiative is vital to our vision for Microsoft's Copilot.       We are seeking an innovative and skilled Software Engineer II with a passion for pushing the boundaries of technology. In this role, you will contribute to developing, designing, and operating large-scale data systems that make up our next-generation platform. As a part of our team, your work will have a direct impact on people globally and on one of the world's most significant data platforms.       At Microsoft, we value diversity and ensure all voices are heard. A healthy work-life balance is essential to us, and we're a team that works hard but also knows how to have fun. If you're excited by the opportunity to contribute to transformative technological advances and make an impact on a global scale, this could be the role for you!     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. As a Software Engineer II on the Semantic Fabric Team, you will be entrusted with a range of responsibilities that are key to the successful development and evolution of our cutting-edge technology platform. Your responsibilities will include:   Participate in the development of the Semantic Fabric, a cutting-edge technology delivering semantic indexing and search experiences across Microsoft Office 365.   Build scalable, high-performance software services over large datasets with low latency and high availability.   Ensure the platform adheres to Microsoft’s strict data privacy and compliance standards.   Participate in design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the Semantic Fabric.   Collaborat e with team members and other engineering teams to ensure the successful integration of individual components into the larger system.   Realiz e architectural discussions and decisions, carry out select ed technologies, design scalable and sustainable solutions, and plan for future growth.   Proactively identify technical debt and other issues impacting the performance or reliability of the software and devising solutions.   Constantly stay informed about the latest developments in the LLM and semantic search field and identify opportunities to apply new methods or technologies to improve the Semantic Fabric.   Tak e part in code reviews, both as a reviewer and a reviewee, to ensure the quality of the software and promote best practices within the team.   Engag e with stakeholders, including team members, other teams, and customers, to gather feedback and ensure the software meets their needs.   Ensur e the software complies with Microsoft's security and privacy standards.   Identify risks that could impact the delivery of the software, and tak e action to mitigate these risks.  
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Full Stack Software Engineer – Bing Revenue Optimization   The Bing Whole Page Revenue Optimization team is looking for a full stack software engineer who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems and working on new features that will impact millions of users around the world daily – all of that with the added benefit of driving such features end-to-end, from design to implementation to A/B testing to shipping.   Our team focuses on the monetization aspect of Bing by optimizing how pages are presented to users. As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to analyze real world user behavior data, come up with new features and ideas, design and implement them end-to-end in the Bing stack, run A/B tests, and make informed decisions based on statistics. Come help us make Microsoft's mission a reality: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  Drive the ideation, design, and implementation of high-quality software features in the back and front-end (UX). Analyze the results of A/B experiments and make informed decisions on user and revenue impact. Generate new feature ideas for user engagement/revenue optimization through competitive analysis and insights. Work effectively with peer engineers, designers, and program managers to maintain the team’s agility.
Oct 15 Finance
Senior Finance Manager, Central Finance Team
Redmond, WA $147,550 The goal of Central Finance T eam (CFT) is to provide key insights that help Microsoft make better financial and business decisions .  Our team is at the hub of Microsoft's financial activities, being a key strategic partner to all sides of the business and serving a diverse set of stakeholders: CFOs, Senior Leadership Team, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams.      Through our Centralized Budgeting and Forecasting priorities in partnership with teams across Finance function, we are aiming for such processes to become modern, simple, standardized and centralized to allow our Field leaders and finance resources to focus energy on driving growth and world class execution. We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager, Central Finance Team who will play a key role in understanding and messaging our company-wide financial targets and quarterly earnings results. As a Senior Finance Manager, you will be part of a fast-paced v-team and focus on transforming our Planning processes by translating large data sets into critical information and insights to enable sound business decisions. You will evolve, improve, and execute our data sourcing, structuring, modeling, analysis and reporting functions across these processes, and also lead design and implementation of new and innovative solutions from scratch. This is an opportunity to leverage your passion for information and business intelligence to add considerable business impact through delivery of critical Planning solutions.     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Deliver Field Annual/Semester Targets cascade and support Field in Budgeting ensuring governance and controls end to end for Finance related processes      Deliver centralized Adjusted Gross Revenue review for Commercial Revenue including Seasonality reviews   Partner with Engineering Finance to analyze commercial revenue drivers and market data for Commercial Revenue Targets and budgets. Produce insight and influence growth   Foreign Exchange (FX) analysis on revenue targets during fiscal rollover activity , in close partnership with Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions Group (MCAPS) planning team Embody our culture and values
Oct 15 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II - AI Engineering Systems
Redmond, WA $153,550 The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Frameworks team at Microsoft develops the AI software used to train and deploy the world’s most advanced AI models. We collaborate with our hardware teams and partners to build the software stacks for Microsoft’s next-generation supercomputers and the new Maia-100 AI accelerator.  We work closely with ML researchers and developers to optimize and scale out model training and inference.       The team operates at the intersection of AI algorithmic innovation, purpose-built AI hardware, systems, and software. We are a cross-discipline team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We collaborate with and contribute to the open source community.    We are currently looking for a Software Engineer II - AI Engineering Systems to join our team.  As a member of this team, you will work on providing the underlying infrastructure for our developers to enable large scale training and inferences of models on novel AI hardware.    This is a technical role: it requires hands on software design and development skills. The right candidate will have demonstrated history of solving hard technical problems and is motivated to tackle the hardest problems in building a full end-to-end AI stack.  An entrepreneurial approach and ability to take initiative and move fast are essential.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Apply engineering principles for defining robust, reliable, and maintainable architectures and designs Collaborate broadly across multiple disciplines from hardware designers to ML developers   Perform software development in C/C++, Python, YAML, Powershell, and other languages Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables   Other Embody our  culture  and  values
Oct 14 Hardware Engineering
Senior Thermal Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Azure’s Thermal Engineering team is looking for a Senior Thermal Engineer to focus on the thermal hardware design of Azure servers and related components at the server and rack level. A strong mix of technical breadth and depth is required to work cross-functionally with different disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, and Software) to develop thermal hardware to effectively manage high performance data center devices. You will work with internal and external partners, focusing on delivering the next generation of world class data center hardware.   Relocation assistance is available to Redmond, WA within the Unisted States. Key responsibilities: Collaborate with internal and external partners across the globe to design hardware systems for the thermal management of Azure servers and related devices. Build, conduct thermal simulations, and review thermal simulation models from ODM partners to identify risks and improve thermal design solutions. Lead Thermal design reviews and presentations of concepts to peers, partner teams, and executives. Work jointly with multidisciplinary teams consisting of both in-house and external companies in the development of concept prototypes. Follow through with production development organizations to drive concepts onto the roadmap and into Azure’s fleet. Collaborate with multifunctional engineering groups to deliver hardware that meets the related product thermal specification. Collaborate with firmware and controls engineering teams to create robust Thermal control and monitoring systems. Conduct design/debug investigations and support failure analysis and resolution activities. Design and create thermal test plans. Collaborate with technicians and industry partners to complete tests. Analyze test data to validate product qualification. Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 14 Product Management
Principal Product Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide. Within CSCP Strategy and Transformation (S&T) team, the well established product management team focused on network planning and supply chain sourcing aims to design, implement and operationalize scalable solutions that will empower the Cloud supply chain to grow with Microsoft. As a Principal Product Manager, you will partner with multiple Supply Chain organizations to drive transformative system and process initiatives to enable the increasing scale and growth of Microsoft Cloud. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager who is passionate about solving large business optimization problems at scale and help develop a new class of services and automation techniques to innovate how Microsoft manages Cloud capacity. As a leader, you should be experienced in driving & leading cross organization discussions to create shared vision & build robust & scalable solutions with agility. If you are comfortable incubating software solutions to large-scale business problems, can collaborate effectively, enjoy dealing with ambiguity and creating clarity then this is the position for you. Other Embody our culture and values .
Oct 14 Administration
Business Administrator
Redmond, WA Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.   ​​If you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and fun work environment and are passionate about supporting a busy executive and a 140+ person team distributed across multiple time zones and geographies, then this Business Administrator role could be the role for you! This role operates in a variety of capacities, working with team demonstrating excellence in administrative functions. You will be responsible for Executive and partner-level interfaces, contact with customers, external partners, and all levels within Microsoft. The ideal candidate will need to be able to navigate and change directions quickly within a fast-paced engineering environment; have stellar interpersonal and customer service skills; take initiative; demonstrate good judgment and can maintain confidentiality. This role also requires clear priorities and the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Being detail oriented and having consistent and timely follow through will be essential to success. ​​ We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Calendar Management and meeting logistics - provides attentive calendar support.  Attention to accuracy, timeliness, conflict resolution and alignment to the leader’s priorities and commitments in various global timezones Team Management support Supports internal and external recruitment efforts and manage accurate headcount records. Coordinates logistics and onboarding support for new employees, vendors and interns - which will include coordination of onsite space management. Event Coordination & logistics  planning, coordination, promotion and support of team events. Travel Management provides travel arrangements and expense management for executive.  Ensures required documents are obtained and that travel policies are adhered to. Team Communication Support Ensure communications from management are successful by managing and maintaining distribution lists  Resource Management  Contributes to and oversees planning, purchasing and tracking of equipment and inventory based on business needs. This includes processing expense reports with full compliance of Microsoft policy and tracking of discretionary budget.  Embody our culture and values  
Oct 14 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $238,000 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.   The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.   We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.  Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Engage directly with key partners to understand and implement complex routing , rate limiting and load balancing capabilities for state-of-the-art LLMs and Diffusion models to optimize for utilization , throughput a nd latency Work with cutting edge hardware stacks and a fast-moving software stack to deliver best of class inference and optimal cost Anticipate, identify , assess, track, and mitigate project risks and issues in a fast-paced start up like environment Motivated to build constructive and effective relationships and solve problems collaboratively Support p roduction inference SLAs for core AI scenarios on one of the largest GPU fleets in the world Other Embody our  culture  and  values  
Oct 14 Software Engineering
Senior Observability Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 We are seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to ensure the performance and efficiency of our Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on the inferencing platform. You'll work closely with engineers and data scientists to develop systems for near real-time data collection and analysis. As an expert in high-scale monitoring and observability, you will utilize Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Grafana, Prometheus, and other telemetry frameworks. Your role includes designing, enriching, and maintaining these tools to manage customer AI workloads, automate engineering processes, and enhance overall efficiency.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.        In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively  impact  our culture every day.   Develop and implement observability strategies for optimizing AI model performance and graphics processing unit (GPU) utilization. Analyze metrics, logs, and traces to identify performance bottlenecks and errors. Instrument metrics when desired telemetry is unavailable. Drive actions to improve the system’s health, performance and key metrics. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve service reliability and performance. Develop and refine metrics to assess the performance and effectiveness of runtime inferencing. Lead efforts in driving down latency and throughput improvements and drive efficiency and utilization of the system. Use competitive industry trends and technologies related to observability and performance engineering to keep us state of art. Other:  Embody our  culture  and  values       
Oct 14 Supply Chain
Demand Planning Manager
Redmond, WA $119,200 Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide. The Demand Planning team is one of the most central functions within Capacity Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP). We drive forecasts, plans and capacity decisions which directly impact Microsoft's cloud customers, as well as our margins. To do this successfully, we partner closely across Microsoft with Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Deployment Engineering. The Demand Planning Manager will plan development and engagement, while impacting customer capacity availability and the bottom-line cost for the Azure Business. This role is demanding, but also offers opportunity for high impact, visibility, and growth. A successful candidate for this role will bring effective analytical and communication skills, driving solid decision under continued uncertainty and change, while also driving continued improvement in our operations, processes, and tools. There are four key areas to this role:  Own capacity decisions, managing forecasts and translating into hardware units for optimal capacity plan across Azure.  Lead Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) forums to balance demand and supply risks.  Engage with a wide set of stakeholders, from Software engineering to Finance to Supply Planning, driving clarity and alignment on business needs.  Continually develop and improve the processes and tools to keep pace with continued hyperscale and complexity. Other Embody our culture and values .
Oct 14 Hardware Engineering
Principal Hardware Engineer, Acoustics
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a Principal Hardware Engineer-Acoustics in the CTO Office of CO+I, you will be part of a design team responsible for designing, developing, and testing new products and solutions that improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of Microsoft's data centers .   Specifically, we are looking for a Hardware Engineer with a subs pecialty in engineering acoustics . You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, and business partners to identify customer needs, generate innovative ideas, and deliver high-quality solutions. You will also collaborate with external vendors and suppliers to ensure alignment with Microsoft's standards and specifications.        Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 Datacenters and 1 million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide. With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our Datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.      In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.  Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Design of mechanical systems for data center critical environments for low noise and high efficiency.    Analysis, simulation, and modeling of noise and vibration of systems in critical environments   Define product requirements internally and cross-functionally for noise control   Influence product roadmap and s trategy around noise control   S ubject matter expert for noise control on data center systems architectures   Embody our culture and values .
Oct 14 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineering Lead
Redmond, WA $238,000 In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us! Accelerators like GPUs and NPUs power a vast array of important technologies, from the AI/ML advances we see every day in the headlines to streaming infrastructure, virtualizing the desktop, and rendering 3D for movies and games. Our team is responsible for the kernel components at the heart of graphics and compute device support in Windows. We drive the evolution of the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) and the Microsoft Compute Driver Model (MCDM), and we own a large breadth of functionality that enables heterogeneous compute on accelerators such as GPUs and NPUs in the Windows ecosystem. We’re responsible for accelerator technologies such as scheduling, memory management, and virtualization both for cloud and client environments (including our Linux support through WSL), along with much more. Our team has partnerships with teams across Microsoft, including Azure, Xbox, and Surface and with our Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) partners such as AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and more. We are at the forefront of this field and are an active participant in evolving the role of GPUs and other compute devices in our ever-growing ecosystem.   We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineering Lead who is passionate about OS internals, security, heterogeneous compute technology and virtualization to lead a team focus on GPU virtualization and containerization. You will be expected to lead the architecture and set direction of the various component involved. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Architect, design and implement new features involving virtualization and containerization of accelerators such as GPUs and NPUs. Manage and mentor a team of engineer focus on applying virtualization and containerization technology to improve security of various scenarios. Work closely with industry partners to bring these designs to various markets Evaluate device performance in critical pathways around virtualization, scheduling, memory management, etc... Investigate and root cause failures in both live environment and postmortem Provide support to the team and partners as they bring their devices to market. Embody our culture and values
Oct 14 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
 Senior Applied Scientist
Redmond, WA $183,700 We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA , to empower the rest of Microsoft’s teams and customers to build on the Core Search and AI team’s industrial grade machine learning. A critical part of the role is to develop an end- to- end understanding of Core Search and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and to adapt these models and techniques to new search challenges across the company. This role will require solving both data science and engineering challenges.   We have seen little innovation in search in the last decade and we are looking for people who want to build the next generation of search using advanced AI technologies at scale. We are responsible for the largest machine learning models at Microsoft by volume and take pride in being the first in the world to solve many practical AI at Scale challenges. Our work spans a very large scope of scenarios including delivering high quality search results from a massive document corpus, extractive and abstractive summarization to generate document snippets, personalization, machine reading comprehension, and document recommendations.      As a team, we leverage the diverse backgrounds and experiences of engineers, scientists, and program managers to help us realize our goal of making the world smarter and more productive. We believe great products are built by inclusive teams of customer-obsessed individuals who trust each other and work together closely.  We collaborate regularly across the company both to find the technology breakthroughs from groups like Microsoft Research to infusing AI into the rest of Microsoft products like Office and Azure.      If you have a keen interest in working in the latest and hottest areas that will help you develop skills in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, data science and high scale systems, this is the team you’re looking for!      Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more and we believe that artificial intelligence will play a critical role in accomplishing that mission. The Core Search and AI team is the leading applied machine learning team at Microsoft responsible for delivering the highest- quality search experience to over 500M+ monthly active users around the world in Microsoft’s search engine, Bing and other dependent search engines such as Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and new startups like Neeva.     Fine-tune, domain adapt and distill large scale NLP models for real-world large-scale applications.    Develop an intuition for strategies to use across diverse, multi-lingual customer datasets and challenges.   Adapt unstructured domain agnostic models and techniques to be robust when processing structured and semi-structured data.   Work on the full lifecycle of machine learning development including training data collection, feature engineering, model training, offline and online experimentation.    Develop accurate solutions that function well in low resources and compliant environments.   Design a blueprint for how to get high quality labels, low-cost labels for a wide range of models ( retrival , ranking, machine reading comprehension) from the crowd    Contribute to experimentation infrastructure and proofs-of-concept to test out new ideas and concepts.   Partner effectively with program management, engineers, and other functions across products and with external customers.  
Oct 14 Program Management
Director, Cloud Supply Chain New Product Introduction (NPI)
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide.   The Supply Chain New Product Introduction (SC NPI) organization within CSCP drives new product deliverables across the supply chain, working closely with Engineering, Program Management, Product Management and other key partner functions to ensure time to market growth readiness for all new products. Well-defined supply chain NPI processes ensure predictable on-time performance, optimize costs, prevent urgent unplanned investments, and provide accurate, timely product readiness across the supply chain organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy supply chain professional to help build and create sustainable advantages throughout the product development process. The Supply Chain NPI Director will be responsible for leading a Cloud Supply Chain team accountable for driving process improvements, improved effectiveness, and increased rigor across CSCP as well as our core team partners. We are seeking a candidate with experience in Cloud hardware development, program management, and supply chain, who can influence executive leadership and other key decision-makers. As a Director, Cloud Supply Chain New Product Introduction (NPI), you will be responsible for the following:  Provide technical and supply chain thought leadership to build the next generation AI products, technology and supply chain Develop AI/GPU process and NPI strategy that enables speed and scale to support rapid business growth Facilitate technical and supply chain decision making to drive solutions, schedules, and manage change as required Build and foster influential relationships with senior leaders across partner teams including Engineering, Product management, Data Center Operations and Supply Chain Influence partner teams and leadership to drive change that improves CSCP scaling of new solutions. Manage a team of high performing supply chain professionals through Microsoft’s Model, Coach and Care paradigms Act as an expert resource and share industry knowledge to supply chain and partner teams to drive excellence Monitor team and project progress through Key Performance Indicators and guide the team towards meeting business goals Scrutinize schedule accuracy and recommend decisions on implementation schedules for project deliverables across products. Identify business transformation opportunities to drive increased efficiency and predictability in the new product readiness. Work with internal partners to develop business requirements and roadmaps to improve automation tools, dashboards, communications, and advanced data & analytics. Partner with key partners from Planning, Sourcing and Deployment to drive end-to-end improvements across the Cloud Supply Chain NPI process. Lead business reviews at operational and executive levels.
Oct 14 Sales
Global Partner Development Manager
Redmond, WA $154,800 Microsoft is seeking a talented Global Partner Development Manager to drive joint solution sales engagement with a top independent software vendor (ISV) Partner.  As a regional based leader you will be a subject matter expert for the “Better Together” Solution Architecture and proactively engage each company’s sales teams to ensure alignment.  You will maintain close oversight of the joint sales pipeline, support sales teams in closing strategic deals, and ensure sales acceleration between both companies. You will be the subject matter expert for Microsoft and Partner’s joint sales engagement globally and will provide guidance and support to local sales leadership and PDMs.  You will also work closely with industry solution product and sales teams on defining GTM strategy with the partner.   A thorough knowledge of sales, partnership management, and cloud services is required.  Effective communication skills are critical and the ability to present complex ideas and concepts to a wide range and size of audiences, from sales and marketing managers to CEO level, is a must.    Success will be measured based on your impact to sales pipeline, Azure revenues generated from joint solutions’ sales, offers you bring to market and the effectiveness of driving high ROI on all partnership investments. This is a high impact role that will influence strategic direction, provide executive visibility, and allow you to demonstrate execution excellence.     Our mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our partner ecosystem is at the forefront of bringing this powerful mission and it is the Global Partner Solutions (GPS) organization that will drive the transformation of this ecosystem to accelerate cloud growth for all partners and Microsoft. The ISV (software ecosystem) team embodies a culture of growth and collaboration, making it a place where teams are challenged, learn, excel, and can do their best work.  Partner development and growth Develop and execute a strategic and tactical partner business plan aligned with Microsoft goals and objectives for managed partners to grow their business. You will promote cloud consumption and digital transformation; plans will consider short and long-term goals and performance expectations aligned with partner needs and capabilities.   Partner Sales and Acceleration Develop a go to market and partner to partner (P2P) plan and engagement with our skilling teams to drive revenue outcomes through our partner ecosystem. You will facilitate collaboration between partners and Microsoft sales teams to overcome obstacles, compete, and create proposals to meet consumption and revenue targets. You will work with your partner on top opportunities following the Microsoft sales methodology and prioritize transactions through marketplace, where possible.  Partner performance and Impact Be responsible for your partners’ performance with Microsoft and accountable for keeping a regular rhythm of connection with executive, sales and delivery teams to identify and resolve blockers in execution, and to accelerate performance. You will drive adoption, usage and performance of programs and investments that contribute to sales and consumption. You will be responsible for the correction of errors plan when execution is below expectations.  Executive Relationship Building Build a trusted-advisor relationship with C-suite leaders of complex partners and align their priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft’s to build mutually beneficial account plans and achieve strategic alignment and growth.   Partner skills and capacity building Lead the integration of capability and capacity plans for your partners utilizing the right mix of sales and tech training to upskill the partner. You will enable partners to build high-impact Microsoft offerings and practices to grow their business and deliver cloud consumption and digital transformation.  Advocate for Partner and Team Mobilizer Represent the partner and lead the orchestration resolution to complex and urgent escalations. You will guide internal groups to prioritize partners' solutions and issues. You will engage across groups internally and with the partner organization to accelerate performance and execution.  Other Embody our culture and values
Oct 14 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer-AI Transformation - Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA $215,800 We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be a key member of the team in Microsoft Research (MSR) that is transforming the way scientific research is performed. You will play a significant role in this effort by conceptualizing, architecting, and implementing solutions that achieve its goals, in collaboration with partners across the lab. This position has the potential to expand in the future to include people manager responsibilities.     We are at a pivotal moment where MSR is aiming to lead a transformative revolution in AI-driven research. To deliver on this bold ambition, we are launching the AI Transformation initiative, which seeks to revolutionize scientific research by empowering research teams to seamlessly integrate AI tools in their work, efficiently access GPU resources, and enhance collaboration by showcasing their groundbreaking work. The team will initially focus on a set of key projects—such as scalable AI application and component hosting and sharing, a Copilot to ensure high publication quality, and a system for fairer and more efficient GPU allocation. Success in these projects will equip research teams with the resources they need to be more productive, increase their research velocity, and maximize their impact in driving innovation forward. We want you to help us realize this vision. Be a leading member of a central team of engineers and data scientists in the MSR Redmond lab.   Collaborate on, design, and implement cutting-edge projects in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for transforming the way research is done.   Design and implement platforms and services for supporting AI initiatives and solutions.   Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code.   Keep abreast of current developments in AI and software engineering and share knowledge with others on the team.   Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.   Embody our culture and values .  
Oct 14 Finance
Senior Finance Manager - Small and Medium Business
Redmond, WA $147,550 Microsoft’s Technology for Social Impact (TSI) team is a full industry vertical team that has been chartered with the mission of bringing the power of technology to every non-profit and humanitarian organization to accelerate Social Good. This organization brings together our donation and grants programs, industry solutions, commercial sales efforts and partner ecosystems to empower non-profits globally to address the world’s most pressing needs.   We are looking for people who thrive under ambiguous challenges, work in a dynamic, “start-up” like environment, have a passion for technology, and roll-up their sleeves to drive data-based analysis. Ability to frame a complex problem, solid analytical skills, and intellectual curiosity are key to success within our team.   We are seeking a Senior Finance Manager - Small and Medium Business to join the TSI Finance team to drive revenue modeling and provide deep channel insights. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute towards Microsoft’s philanthropic commitment. In this role you will closely partner with the TSI Sales team to deliver sustainable revenue growth, support the finance rhythm of business (RoB), provide insights to support business investment decisions, and effectively communicate the business results.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Prioritize Support rhythm of the business across all the stakeholders with efficiency and effectiveness Drive understanding of business health through financial modeling and analysis of industry benchmarks, customer patterns, and broader commercial trends Provide actionable insights to business to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results Develop financial models to support forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning   Partnership Drive actions with stakeholders to achieve business goals including revenue generation and resource allocation through close collaboration Communicate results and insights in a clear and compelling manner Lead on-going efforts to develop and evolve our insights framework with key partners across finance and business to stay up to date with the business need and land growth opportunity Collaborate across Corporate and Field Finance teams to share business insights, drive alignment, and leverage best practices Protect Ensure compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes Other Embody our Culture  and  Values
Oct 14 Digital Sales and Solutions
Azure Infrastructure Technical Sales Manager
Las Colinas, Texas $161,500 In the Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) business, we have set out with the purpose to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. As part of local subsidiaries or centers around the world, you will support a dedicated set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared SMC Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SMC organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.   Are you inspired to help customers empower their employees, maximize the employee experience, and do great work using the devices and apps they love? We are looking for someone to help customers who are undergoing significant changes to the way they work as we continue to shift into a truly hybrid work model. Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success in this new world of work.   As an Azure Infrastructure Technical Sales Manager , you will build, develop and lead a team of Azure Infrastructure Technical Specialists to identify and win over the technical decision makers within our diverse set of Corporate customers. You and your team will drive technical evaluations and decisions that help them achieve measurable outcomes with the Microsoft Azure Platform, thereby securing long-term sustainable growth for Microsoft. Your team will enable and advance customer maturity through direct customer engagement, Pilot deployments, and solution and architectural guidance, while developing deep engagement with internal teams and channel partners to bring holistic relevance and value to our customers. The Technical Specialist Manager is a great coach, mentor, and leader, has a deep affinity for cloud technologies, and loves working closely with their team, their peers, and their customers to deliver success.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.   Scale Customer Engagement Engages with, reaches out to, and coaches and enables team to identify and proactively engage with key customer technical decision makers. Uses knowledge of customer context and solution or portfolio expertise to build credibility with customers individually or at scale. Develops technical and market/industry knowledge. Enables and empowers team to lead and win customer technical decisions by streamlining processes and managing the flow of wins, leveraging knowledge of processes (e.g., Managed Service Provider [MSP], co-sell partners), tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack], End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Center, demo sites, virtual sites), with limited managerial support, to assess and remediate technical and non-technical blockers by engaging other teams (e.g., account team unit [ATU], specialist team unit [STU]) and conveying impact. Consolidates cases of common blockers in the area and drives appropriate escalation activities. Ensures consistency and quality through adherence of standards and best practices (e.g., managed service provider [MSP], managed certified professional [MCP]) in customer engagements by holding team accountable. Orchestrates team resources and coaches team to maximize impact of customer engagements through capacity planning, prioritization, capabilities assessment, and utilization of resources. Prioritizes resources and holds team accountable for maximizing selling time to achieve scorecard objectives and subsidiary strategy.   Scale Through Partners Maximizes subsidiary level capacity and capabilities of scaling through partners by coaching team to grow partner network, identifying gaps, and promoting the partner within the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., account teams). Raises escalations or alleviates blockers through collaboration with manager-level counterparts in cross-functional groups. Supports partner technical capacity by providing feedback to internal teams (e.g., One Commercial Partner [OCP]).   Build Strategy Builds competitive knowledge of team by enabling competitive learning and identifying experts to share knowledge. Enables team to share compete knowledge with internal teams, influence compete strategies, and highlight Microsoft advantages during architecture and capability discussions. Coaches and provides support to team to define and execute strategy. Proactively approaches customers to understand and help identify strategic opportunities. Supports the voice of the customer (VOC) through escalation, acceleration, and additional emphasis of feedback, blockers, insights, resources, etc. (e.g., OneList) items as needed. Pre-aligns technical resources to customer and customer cases based on account planning and priorities, with the flexibility to realign to minimize orchestration and enable proactive engagements as needed. Coaches team in working with account teams to shape strategic win plan and tailor Microsoft messaging to audience using knowledge of customer feedback, specific Microsoft solutions, and their context in a competitive landscape. Ensures team is equipped to execute compete strategy, collaborating with cross-functional groups as needed. Coaches team to monitor, analyze, or implement action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer’s business outcomes. Identifies opportunities to promote usage in a productive way.   Solution Design and Proof Coaches team and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions and position solutions against competitors through initial engagements. Ensures demonstrations enable customers to identify and resolve technical issues with clear criteria and next steps that guarantee deployment of Microsoft technology. Guides team on Microsoft standards on demonstrations to provide feedback to partners. Applies sales methodologies (e.g., catalyst, challenger sales) and coaches sales team in guiding customers through digital transformation across solution areas and leveraging insights to align new or changing technology to customer business needs. Coaches team to leverage Microsoft technology in innovative ways to meet customer needs. Supports team in coordinating with stakeholders to develop solutions for complex sales scenarios. Identifies new trends and needs, and identifies ideas that can be transformed into applications of solutions that benefit customers/partners, serving as the voice of the customer (VOC) to Microsoft.   Technical Leadership Enables and empowers team to develop technical expertise and provide technical insights to internal teams. Plans, conducts, or coaches team to conduct one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits of using specific Microsoft solutions/products.   Other Embody our culture and values
Oct 14 Communications
Communications Manager
Redmond, WA $133,200 The era of AI is here, and businesses of all sizes are betting on Microsoft as their trusted cloud and AI partner to help them adapt to new ways of work, accelerate innovation and create new opportunities to grow and transform. Our Customer Communications team works closely with some of the most high-profile brands in the world to bring their AI transformation stories to life and showcase the power and possibility of what technology can enable in their organizations and for their own customers, employees and partners.    We’re looking for a Communications Manager to join our team and help drive partnership stories with our top commercial customers that help people fall in love with Microsoft, the things we make and the impact we have on the world. This is an exciting role in a growing part of the business with high visibility. If you have a passion for telling stories about AI, business strategy and technology, thrive in a fast-paced environment and know what it takes to break through with influencers in today’s media landscape, we want to talk to you!   In this role, you will be responsible for developing compelling customer stories that bring to life the business value of AI, including building impactful comms plans, creating content and executing on tactics that positively influence perceptions around customer announcements, partnership news and customer momentum stories. Your work will target a range of audiences, including Microsoft shareholders, industry experts, business and IT decision makers, IT pros and a variety of tech specialists. Creativity, resourcefulness, agility, confidence and negotiation skills are a must. We are looking for someone who loves both the art and science of communications, and who wants to make an impact in an area where Microsoft is shining a spotlight, together with our customers.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.      In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.   Build and implement winning PR plans, strategies and programs. Create and drive compelling partnership announcements together with our top commercial customers that break through with business, tech and industry media leveraging owned, earned and social channels. Collaborate with global colleagues to help extend customer stories to our markets around the world, amplify local/regional stories at the global level, gain deeper insight into the global customer story pipeline and work closely together to drive increased impact. Identify and execute on opportunities to tell customer stories accruing to industry trends. Fuel commercial customer references into media trend stories, demonstrating – through the voices of our customers – how Microsoft technologies are making an impact in the world. Work closely with sales, engineering, marketing, communications and legal teams across the company as a trusted partner and advisor. Manage and develop spokespeople, including senior executives. Build relationships with our most strategic customers and establish/execute long-term communications plans to drive thoughtful and unique stories together. Lead and guide external agency teams, including for media research and engagement, as well as measurement and reporting. Be an integral part of the Cloud Communications team, collaborating across shared goals, projects and activities. Other Embody our culture and values  
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Principal Group Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA $238,000 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. Copilot for Security, the first security focused generative AI product, reimagines how security gets done and how we do security. It empowers security and IT teams to protect at the speed and scale of AI making them more productive and allowing them to improve their skills. As pioneers in the field, we are committed to addressing the evolving challenges and opportunities within the realm of cybersecurity and continue to be the market leaders when it comes to GAI and Security. Our team is seeking a Principal Group Engineering Manager to join our team to deliver world-class infrastructure for our services and soon AI services and Agents. As the leader of the Base Platform & Infrastructure team, you are obsessed about developer’s velocity and you will lead engineering teams chartered to providing a resilient platform that supports advanced AI and data workloads to provide highly reliable, scalable, secure, and automated services in a highly paced, dynamic environment. This role demands deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies, AI tech, DevOps practices, and security. Your team will design, implement, and operate the CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment of platform services. You will stay acutely aware of COGS at scale, providing guidance to building features efficiently and ensuring that our infrastructure runs smoothly and cost effectively. You will be responsible for identity, access management, secrets protection, capacity and throttling services. You will provide a vision for supporting our AI platform needs and international presence, aligning with stakeholders to deliver innovative and impactful solutions that reach millions of customers worldwide.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. As the Principal Group Engineering Manager, you will: Lead and grow a team of engineering managers and engineers to build scalable services while championing a growth mindset, diversity and inclusion. Live by the leadership principles of: create clarity, generate energy and deliver results. Coach the team to deliver success through empowerment and accountability, establishing clear objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries and help the team adapt and learn in a very high pace, adaptive environment. Guide partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements within and across teams, identify dependencies and lead the appropriate infrastructure design for high efficiency and low costs. Optimize for performance and cost. Champion automation in all aspects of infrastructure and deployment processes, ensuring efficient, repeatable workflows across environments. Oversee the implementation of robust security practices across the platform and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA), driving auditing, governance and access control. Drive technical innovation by exploring new cloud technologies and adopting best practices to enhance platform resilience and efficiency
Oct 11 Business Development & Ventures
Associate
Mountain View, California $133,200 Microsoft AI’s (MAI) Mission is to use AI responsibly to make everyone more informed, capable, and supported .  MAI is responsible for Microsoft’s consumer propositions including Copilot, Bing, MSN, Microsoft Advertising, and Edge, as well as developing proprietary foundational AI models.   MAI works closely with a variety of teams across Microsoft and across the full AI stack to deliver on Microsoft ’ s AI ambitions.       We are growing the Business and Strategy team, part of the office of the CEO of MAI, to assist with the creation and implementation of the overarching strategy of MAI, as well as drive business operations.     The candidate should have a proven track record and strong skills in business strategy, business operations, communications, and internal stakeholder management. An ability to anticipate and respond quickly as new opportunities and partner situations arise is critical.      As a Business Strategy Specialist and member of the office of the CEO of MAI team, this opportunity will allow you to serve as a trusted advisor and you will be an important contributor supporting the broader strategic and operational needs of the team.  This role includes a variety of responsibilities , including analyzing markets, emerging trends, and strategic initiatives, as well as contributing to managing the rhythm of business. This role will also assist with the development of the overarching strategy for the organization and key product teams. In addition, you will be able to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, and become adept at turning analysis into strategic and operational excellence.       Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.      By applying to this U.S. position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco or Seattle/Redmond area and in office at least 3 days a week.   You will conduct market-based research and analyses and create initial framing for strategic questions with limited input.    You will also synthesize findings into insights across projects and leverage those insights to develop recommendations and ideas around potential growth opportunities.    You will communicate and advocate insights to senior business leaders.    You will also convey viewpoints through written documents and influence models through moderate iterations, build end-to-end storylines, and deliver project findings and recommendations to senior executives.    As you establish and maintain key points of contact with internal teams, you will cultivate relationships with leaders of internal teams.    You will also function as an advisor to senior leadership on a particular area of expertise to inform strategic business decisions.    You will contribute to large strategy projects while also defining and managing small projects (with guidance as needed) as well as contributing to managing the rhythm of business .     Embody our   Culture   and   Values .      
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Member of Technical Staff, AI Data
Mountain View, California $238,000 Help build the world’s most advanced multimodal dataset at Microsoft AI   We are on a mission to create the largest and most advanced multimodal dataset in the world. This dataset, spanning all modalities from across the web and beyond, will power the training of the world’s most capable AI frontier models, pushing the boundaries of scale, performance, and product deployment.    The AI Data team at Microsoft AI is responsible for all aspects of data preparation to support our model pre-training operations, including collecting data from the source, extracting and transforming the most useful data, and understanding the impact of changes to data by training and evaluating new models. We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists, learning from each other, and collaborating to create the best models and products. We work closely with the teams that transform pre-trained models into the models that power the consumer Copilot experience.    We are looking for outstanding individuals excited about contributing to the next generation of systems that will transform the field. In particular, we are looking for candidates who:   Are passionate about the role of data in large-scale AI model training   Will thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment   Have a high degree of craftsmanship and pay close attention to details   Demonstrate a proactive attitude and enthusiasm for exploring new methods and technologies   Effectively manage multiple responsibilities and can adjust to shifting priorities.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design and develop data pipelines that ingest enormous amounts of multi-modal training data (text, audio, images, video).   Build and maintain cutting-edge infrastructure that can store and process the petabytes of data needed to power models.   Partner with the pretraining and post-training teams to improve our data recipe by rigorous and careful experimentation.   Collaborate with the product team and other engineers and researchers across Microsoft AI to identify gaps in the current generation of models.   Embody our culture and values .  
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Member of Technical Staff, AI Data
Mountain View, California $215,800 Help b uild the w orld’s m ost a dvanced m ultimodal d ataset at Microsoft AI   We are on a mission to create the largest and most advanced multimodal dataset in the world. This dataset , spanning all modalities from across the web and beyond , will power the training of the world’s most capable AI frontier models , pushing the boundaries of scale , performance , and product deployment.     The AI Data team at Microsoft AI is responsible for all aspects of data preparation to support our model pre-training operations, including collecting data from the source, extracting and transforming the most useful data, and understanding the impact of changes to data by training and evaluating new models . We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists, learning from each other, and collaborating to create the best models and products. We work closely with the teams that transform pre-trained models into the models that power the consumer Copilot experience .    We are looking for outstanding individuals excited about contributi ng to the next generation of systems that will transform the field. In particular, we are looking for candidates who :   Are pa ssionate about the role of data in large-scale AI model training   Will thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment   Have a high degree of craftsmanship and pay close attention to details   Demonstrate a proactive attitude and enthusiasm for exploring new methods and technologies   Effectively manage multiple responsibilities and can adjust to shifting priorities .     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design and develop data pipelines that ingest enormous amounts of multi-modal training data (text, audio, images, video).   Build and maintain cutting-edge infrastructure that can store and process the petabytes of data needed to power models.   Partner with the pretraining and post-training teams to improve our data recipe by rigorous and careful experimentation.   Collaborate with the product team and other engineers and researchers across Microsoft AI to identify gaps in the current generation of models.   Embody our culture and values .  
Oct 11 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Data Scientist: Energy System Modeler - PhD - Redmond
Redmond, WA $153,550 Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.   Data Scientists at Microsoft use machine learning, statistics, experiments, and more to build and improve great products while making business impact. The Microsoft Datacenter Energy Strategy and Partnerships Team identifies long term growth obstacles and develops global mitigation strategies, centralizing global functions to deliver consistency and scalability. This spans energy technology, resilience, commercial partnership, and business operations strategy.   The Energy System Modeler on the Microsoft Datacenter Energy Strategy Team will be responsible for conducting and managing electricity grid studies and analyses to ensure energy infrastructure investment, development, and reliability to support the global growth of Microsoft’s datacenters.      You will demonstrate familiarity with a variety of grid models and studies, experience in conducting these studies and managing the development and outputs of such models, as well as identify business challenges and deliver insights needed to overcome them. You will develop a quantitative understanding of the energy infrastructure investments and policies needed to support Microsoft’s continued datacenter growth.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office. For roles in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site .  Conduct analyses of energy system simulations and optimizations using state of the art commercial and open-source software, and communicate results in both reports/papers and presentations. Research and develop energy system models to support Microsoft datacenter growth by identifying and expanding capacity, lowering costs, and reducing carbon emissions. Research and evaluate grid models and analyses of global energy industry markets, infrastructure, and technologies. Leverage grid modeling and analysis to contribute to the development and maintenance of reliable and sustainable energy infrastructure to support datacenter operations and growth, identifying potential risks, efficiencies, and savings. Translate business needs into scopes of work for grid modeling and analyses. Develop assumptions, inputs, and scenarios for models to inform transmission capacity availability, transmission planning, generation capacity expansion, transmission reliability/availability, and clean energy procurement strategy. Interpret model results for cross-functional leadership. Propose business, investment, and operational recommendations informed by insights and backed by data. Work with energy regulatory policy leads to develop advocacy positions informed by grid analysis and company needs. Ensure stakeholder alignment and identify and mitigate risks for assigned projects. Manage change, negotiate deadlines and deliverables with stakeholders, prioritize work, and advise management on status, under guidance. Consider cross-functional inputs and balances competing business objectives. Communicate content status and performance to cross-functional teams. Serve as a point of contact to answer questions, provide feedback, and review work. Work with internal and external collaborators on topics including: Demand flexibility Reliability and resilience Transmission expansion Technology benefit and cost analysis Projections of buildouts of generation, transmission, and energy storage Electrification of transportation, building, and manufacturing
Oct 11 Supply Chain
Construction Contract Lead
Wenatchee, WA $167,100 Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud.  We   are responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.    Within CO+I, the Global Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. Furthermore, we support the Operations team that manages and runs the cloud assets. We are looking to fill a critical role of Construction Contract Lead on our Supply Execution Chain team to lead a program of build projects in Wenatchee and Quincy, Washington.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     As a Contract Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of contracts related to site operations and construction projects. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, legal experts, and external stakeholders to manage contractual agreements, mitigate risks, and drive compliance at the job site. Your attention to detail, negotiation skills, and ability to navigate complex contractual landscapes will be essential for this role.    Procurement and Contracts     Project Procurement:  Perform sourcing activities for various professional services, such as GC (General Contractors), Architect Engineers, Commissioning Agents, Cost Management, Project Management, and others.   Develop sourcing and negotiation strategies to meet project objectives, in relation to the contract  Participate in supplier assessment and prepare contract award proposals.  Contract Review and Compliance:   Responsible for ensuring all contractual requirements are met according to the terms and conditions.  Executes procurement contracting strategies for large, complex data center construction projects and/or purchasing opportunities to achieve optimal cost and continuity of supply and services.   Serve as first line of defense/communication with site stakeholders on commercial issues.  Execute project closeout requirements.   Change Order Management:   Lead Change Order negotiations with input from key stakeholders and detailed understanding of contractual conditions.   Monitor and mitigate the impact of change orders to the project, and partners cross-functionally to resolve/escalate accordingly. Attend change management meetings and report on open change orders as applicable.   OFCI Management & Quality Assurance:    Help facilitate OFCI (Owner-Furnished, Contractor Installed) equipment once delivered to site, including inspections and sign offs.   Address quality-related issues as they arise and report as appropriate.  Partner with Labor Planning team on Field Service Representative (FSR) constraints during Cx (Commissioning). Ensure GC schedules are coordinated with Vendor Labor constraints.  Monitor vendor activity for timely Cx completion.   Execution Coordination & Communication:   Assume all post-award contract execution responsibilities.   Own commercial decision making on all post-award activities through influencing project stakeholders.  Identify potential challenges related to the project/contract and develop strategies to mitigate the risk and maintain compliance.   Provide regular status reports on issues, risks and mitigations to leadership.   Prepare contractual notices as appropriate using language from terms & conditions.   Address and resolve any payment disputes submitted by suppliers.  Help facilitate and engage as needed in negotiations with contractors and other parties to resolve disputes with regular updates to the client team.  Collaborate with project stakeholders to review the GC’s subcontractor procurement deliverables and final recommendation of subcontractor award for each trade package.    Stakeholder Collaboration   Drives business engagement and partnership with cross-functional teams including Planning, Strategic Sourcing, Cost Management, Engineering, Quality, Construction and Project Managers. Drives commercial compliance and problem resolution with General Contractors, Subcontractors and Suppliers. Actively partners with suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements. 
Oct 11 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Research Intern - Cloud Efficiency & Reliability
Redmond, WA Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment. In the  Systems Innovation research group , we are leveraging our deep workload understanding and combining algorithmic research with Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) techniques and hardware innovation to provide a step function improvement in cloud efficiency, reliability and sustainability. We closely collaborate with multiple research teams and product groups across the globe who bring a multitude of technical expertise in cloud systems, machine learning and software engineering. We disseminate our research both internally and externally through peer-reviewed scientific publications, open-source releases, blog posts, patents, and industry conferences.   For this position, you will have a background in Systems research and the motivation and ambition to apply this to production systems. Some of the research problems we are currently working on are: optimizing inferencing of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)/Large Language Models (LLMs), workload-aware placement of compute resources, holistic characterization and modelling of workloads, fault injection for improving workload reliability and mining dependency graphs for web-scale systems.  Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world’s best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Research Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to exciting research and development strides. During the 12-week internship, Research Interns are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community. Research internships are available in all areas of research, and are offered year-round, though they typically begin in the summer.
Oct 11 Hardware Engineering
Portfolio Analyst
Redmond, WA $153,550 Microsoft is looking for a Portfolio Analyst to join the Renewable Energy & Risk Team within the Cloud Operations + Innovation Organization. This position will be responsible for supporting the Renewable Energy Origination, Asset Management and Risk teams with the ongoing management of a large portfolio of renewable energy contracts. This role will provide the candidate with a unique opportunity to join a high impact team and gain a wide range of exposure to global energy markets.   The successful candidate will have a passion for renewable energy with proven cross-functional collaboration and demonstrate analytical skills.  We run a fast-paced and dynamic work environment so the right candidate will need to be able to move quickly while maintaining quality work product.    In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Develop new and/or improve existing asset management / risk reporting tools and processes to provide accurate and timely information to key stakeholders, including working with internal engineering and external vendors to translate business needs into corresponding data requirements, and build out portfolio data architecture and platform to meet team objectives. Work with energy markets and renewables teams to collect and process data at scale and improve modeling of existing contractual positions globally. Create detailed scenario analyses to inform both retail and renewable energy procurement decisions with a target to reduce spend at risk across regional and global portfolios. Track budget variances, run root cause analyses, and present consolidated outputs and learnings to renewable and risk team leads. Perform regular backcasts to assess accuracy of contractual modeling and market assumptions to continually calibrate risk models. Support Renewable Energy Origination team with supplier engagement and deal approval process including creation of proforma documentation for finance approvals and new vendor onboarding. Support the Asset Management team to drive vendor invoicing consistency and implement tools for independent verification to ensure accurate invoices and timely payments. Provide ad-hoc support for contract negotiations with actionable feedback on portfolio risks and opportunities. Other Embody our Culture  and  Values
Oct 11 Product Management
Product Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad —to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits.   Microsoft AI’s Mission is to use AI responsibly to make everyone more informed, capable, and supported.   As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating consumer Copilot’s compliance under responsible AI and regulatory governance processes. You will work with the Technical Safety team to build a suite of metrics, evaluate and improve the safety of new model candidates, and collaborate cross-functionally with cloud and platform engineering partners.   We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Analysis of Customer and Market Signals Independently contributes to identifying customers’ unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for enhancements or development of multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) via quantitative (e.g., usage, telemetry) and qualitative analyses (e.g., customer usage, various listening systems, feedback channels of market and industry trends), looks for patterns in the data across a portfolio, and scopes the impact and prioritization of a problem. Brings together internal and external customer groups and engages in direct 1:1 (e.g., visits, interviews) or many (e.g., social media, events) customer engagements to solicit feedback and understand their experiences with Microsoft’s products and services using industry-accepted methods (e.g., Moneyball). Performs market or user research in collaboration with the User Research team, conducts competitive analyses, and examines market and industry trends, as well as industry-specific requirements or regulations. Shares insights with internal team and ensures cross-team alignment. Understands and starts to build experiences across multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service). Starts to coach internal team to develops problem statements and forms hypotheses of new feature areas (e.g., product, service) to address complex customer needs and/or market opportunities; identifies dependencies of other feature areas. Performs experiments to test hypotheses and inform decisions on what new feature areas (e.g., product, service) to introduce. Establishes clarity of patterns of root problem and how it relates with previously seen trends across customers, determines the customers/sectors impacted, foresees future opportunities, and provides research evidence to determine priorities. Ensures alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, and the goals and strategy of Microsoft. Collaborates with others (e.g., Software Engineering [SWE], Hardware Engineering [HWE], Product Marketing, Design) to ensure that they can satisfy customer requirements. Validates the market size and opportunity to determine products or features of greatest value. Defines solution options across multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service). Partners with SWE, HWE, and senior colleagues on other teams in refinement sessions to synthesize hypothesis results into solutions tied with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) progress. Product/Service Definition Works across multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) as directed. Helps define and influence the long-term vision and strategy for the feature areas based on a deep understanding of customer needs, market and user research, the competitive landscape, and Microsoft’s business goals and strategy. Helps write the product framing/vision memo. Helps distill the vision and strategy into a product roadmap. Creates user stories and assists in building epics to convey the big picture. Leverages a deep understanding of the product architecture to design integrated scenarios. Collaborates with others (e.g., Business Planning, Finance, Support, Customers, Product Marketing) to identify the potential customer base. Communicates product strategy to internal and external customers and builds consensus through multiple methods (e.g., conference presentations, collaboration with partner organizations). Owns or partners with others in driving business impact across the organization and tracking success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as engagement, usage, acquisition, revenue, profitability, and in-project features) and provides clarity on fundamentals (e.g., quality, privacy, security, compliance, accessibility, cost of goods sold [COGS]) of multiple features or feature areas. Works with Software Engineering (SWE) and Hardware Engineering (HWE) to identify needed data and ensure needed telemetry is developed and obtains it responsibly and compliantly; reports and explicates reasons for outcomes. Deeply understands the COGS of multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) and the KPIs that will help improve profitability. Identifies OKRs for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) and ensures alignment of the features with product-level OKRs. Determines the value of the product or feature to the business, aligns success criteria, and measures success. Identifies data-informed, short-term, and long-term investment opportunities, evaluates tradeoffs, and prioritizes investments in consultation with cross-functional partners for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service). Determines the features or experiences to prioritize in the roadmap that will support achievement of success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Influences and engages with cross-functional internal partners, external partners, including early adopting customers, senior leadership, and other key stakeholders to gather input and garner support for product/service vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple feature areas. Starts to provide thought leadership for questions and challenges from group managers and other leaders. Anticipates push back and addresses it appropriately using product expertise and data while handling challenging feedback. Collaborates to gain buy in and alignment. Solicits input from others regarding priorities and resources needed to deliver desired outcomes for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service). Product/Service Development Helps to define the feature set and partners with Design teams to connect multiple design factors (e.g., visual design, user experience [UX], application programming interfaces [APIs], hardware design) to desired functionality and product vision. Iterates multiple designs with Design, Software Engineering (SWE), and Hardware Engineering (HWE). Leverages preexisting design patterns to inform current design iterations and establish a cohesive design approach. Anticipates interoperability challenges between different components or layers in the stack (e.g., UX and API layer differences). Facilitates mid-level reviews (e.g., UX, system designs, data designs) with customers (e.g., regulators, engineers, policy makers, business-decision makers) to determine usability and ensure accessibility criteria and updated designs meet customer goals. Owns the roadmap for the multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) they own. Prioritizes the backlog, works with Software Engineering (SWE) and Hardware Engineering (HWE) to align on tradeoffs for the multiple feature areas (e.g., product service) they own, and partners with Product Marketing on the disclosure of the roadmap. Takes in new inputs and adapts as necessary. Starts to build systems and frameworks to enable the team to scale for a product area. Ensures line between customer needs and what is developed on the roadmap so that a series of problems can be addressed over time. Ensures alignment between the roadmap for the multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) and Objective and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Collaborates with partner team to build golden configurations and drives scenario walkthroughs and thought exercises to identify problems, system friction, and needed contingencies in advance of early customer adoption for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service). Shares feature previews or roadmap with customers to drive engagement and to gather feedback and customer telemetry in conjunction with others (e.g., Business Development, Sales, End Consumers, User Research). Collaborates with Software Engineering (SWE), Hardware Engineering (HWE), and Scientists to synthesize, prioritize, and address feedback for improvement. Go To Market Collaborates with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to identify product release criteria customer acquisition, usage, retention, and monetization strategies. May help scale Product Marketing teams by helping build marketing and roll-out plans and/or content such as product overviews, blogs, and landing pages for individual features or smaller products that ladder up to marketing plans for an overall product solution area. Creates and drives strategy for taking the multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) from private preview to public preview and then to general availability. Contributes to creating customer support plans (e.g., frequently asked questions [FAQs], scripts), HyperCase, change management, and communication plans. Evangelizes the feature areas they work on with internal and external stakeholders, partners, analysts, and customers in the industry via presentations, blog posts, social media, and other forums. Presents at Executive Briefing Centers (EBCs) and large industry/company events. Acts as a primary interface with Product Marketing to educate on the product and develop content. Product/Service Performance Partners with others (e.g., Data Science, Software Engineering [SWE], Hardware Engineering [HWE], User Research) to define and collect performance metrics (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs] such as engagement, usage, acquisition, revenue, and in-project features), monitor and report on progress (e.g., business reviews), and derive deep insights and drives productive courses of action to improve product/feature development, iteration, and implementation. Leverages customer listening systems, telemetry, engagements (e.g., interviews, surveys), etc., to develop insights on product performance and customer needs. Shares insights with SWE, HWE, and other partners. Forms hypotheses to complex technical needs, performs experiments, iterates, and tests to drive improvement/adoption in specific performance metrics that have broad impact in a targeted area. Identifies features to deprecate. Develops, articulates, and presents reasoning and tradeoffs involved in deprecations. Works with Public Relations/Product Marketing on messaging to customers. Communicates change accurately. Identifies optimal next steps for customer transition. Builds trust with a targeted selection of customers. Orchestrates a line of communication with complex and advanced customers to capture feedback and insights through the product development lifecycle. Manages customer communities and customer engagement programs. Responds to real-time customer feedback in online portals. Understands and drives improvements in the support process, including both forums and communities. Other Embody our culture  and values .
Oct 11 Hardware Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Redmond, WA $128,250 Overview Microsoft’s Xbox Hardware team consists of diverse and creative professional who design, test, and manufacture some of the best-loved gaming and entertainment devices in the world. Our teams ship tens of millions of hardware products every year including the Xbox Series S, Series X, a full accessories lineup, and more. Team Xbox is the destination for the brightest minds in consumer electronics design. Come join our team to deliver exciting new products to fans and customers worldwide!   The Xbox console hardware team is seeking an entry level Electrical Engineer to own schematic design on key Xbox products. The candidate will possess the ability to collaborate closely with engineers across the team who work on many different electrical subsystems like memory, power, high-speed IO, low-speed IO, RF, SOCs, and mechanical design. This individual will work to gather design requirements, understand subsystem architectures, and integrate everything into one cohesive schematic design for a next-gen product. The candidate will be well versed in core electrical engineering design principles and need to have a good understanding of circuit design, datasheet analysis, timing analysis, power, performance, and circuit debugging. An eagerness to learn, good communication skills, and a willingness to tackle big challenges are necessary for success in this position. Own the end-to-end development of the electrical schematic for flagship Xbox products.   Implement innovative solutions to electrical design challenges with guidance from other engineers.   Read component specification s and interpret common details required to design and test various hardware features.   Analyze and interpret electrical test result s to identify common problems or flaws that affect the product design .   Develop design documentation includ ing drawings, specifications, schematics, or wiring diagrams .    Determine the appropriate test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers) for measuring and testing a n electrical circuit.    Write verification test cases using standard templates and test methodologies.   Develop, review, and execute test plans for standard Xbox features and products.   Document essential details about materials, components, and/or assemblies for a device via accepted release processes.    Accurately recor d and track changes to designs following established processes with some guidance from other engineers.   Communicate project progress and status within the team and escalate issues as necessary.  
Oct 11 Business Development & Ventures
Business Manager
Redmond, WA $161,500 Halo Studios is the developer of the blockbuster Halo series of video games. As part of Xbox Game Studios, the Halo franchise encompasses games, television series, novels, comics, licensed collectibles, apparel and more. We are looking for talented new voices to join our team to build the next generation of games and experiences in our award-winning sci-fi universe. Do you want to closely collaborate with teams to drive inspiring, cohesive gameplay experiences? Are you interested in both celebrating and evolving Halo’s legacy to create a new generation of stories that millions of players love? If so, the Halo team would love to speak with you about becoming our next Franchise Business Manager!    As a Halo Franchise Business Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the business management of out-of-game products and experiences for Halo Studios. This business manager’s job will run the gamut from supporting product ideation through developing business strategies for how players experience our games outside of their Xbox or PC. You will work directly with product leaders to develop product strategy, create business models, review / design contracts, manage budgets, formulate long-term product / financial plans, and ensure accountability to each team's contribution to franchise KPIs. This role requires deep modeling skills, solid strategic thinking, and the ability to work autonomously, jumping from strategy to execution and back again.       Your unique blend of skills and passion could come from a broad range of disciplines: production, business development, business affairs, marketing, product planning or finance. Roles at our studio are flexible, and you can work from home up to two days a week in this role.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Responsibilities    Work with product owners to formulate short (0-3 yrs.) and long-term (3-7 yrs.) business strategies for entertainment products.  Create complex financial models, comprised of tangible and intangible value, that drive business innovation and profitable performance in the entertainment industry.  Create business cases to help bring a product and/or feature to market by analyzing all aspects of the go-to-market plan within a matrixed organization.  Work with product teams to make the right production decisions, minimizing costs / risk while delivering quality products on-time and on-budget.   Develop key performance indicators to develop business intelligence and evaluate performance to optimize and iterate for better customer experiences.  Forge partnerships and negotiate contracts with external partners.  Solid written and verbal executive communication skills needed to work across a multi-discipline product team and external partners.  Deep understanding of contract design and melding legalese with business requirements.  Embody our  Culture  and  Values  
Oct 11 Product Management
Principal Program Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.   Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the heart of Digital Transformation, sweeping through every business and industry on the planet. At Azure AI Platform (AIP), our v ision is to help every organization in every industry turn meaningful innovation into actionable results.   To get there, we are incorporating a diverse set of groundbreaking AI technologies across Azure AI Services, Azure Machine Learning, AI Frameworks and Generative AI with Azure Open AI. We infuse these technologies across a broad portfolio of first and third-party products ranging from web services , PaaS, and SaaS solutions such as Office and Dynamics, mobile and PC software, Azure-connected sensing devices, IoT, and ambient devices.   We are looking for the best and brightest to join our team and help us lead the next generation of Azure AI P solutions delivering on customer promises for complex engineering projects. As a Principal Program Manager , you will be partner facing and responsible for partner success through delivery management of cross-functional programs , and strong partner and internal stakeholder relationships across feature and product teams .   You are front and center with the world’s leading brands representing the AI platform in support of their digital journey , empowering them to accelerate their value and achieve more . Grow your career by being part of a world class engineering team .   We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served .     Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.     Manage product launch roadmap and partner with PM stakeholders to create technical content and assets in general around new AzureAI /AOAI capabilities, composite scenario materials and top use cases   Partner with PM and CxE teams to create and maintain technical demo library showcasing AzureAI /AOAI top capabilities   Develop and maintain full compete BOM (platform level, model level, scenario level)    Partner with STU/CSU/GPS /marketing teams to p lan and deliver field technical readiness to field teams      Provide L300+ technical product overview & insights aligned with customer use cases   Act as the main POC for all technical assets and readiness to the Field HC teams   Leverage field execution insights to provide feedback to PM teams on product gaps and opportunities to augment or extend our existing AI portfolio    Embody our culture and values  
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA $215,800 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The mission for the Identity for Services (ID4S) team, part of Microsoft Entra is to make it hard to get authentication and authorization wrong. We believe the tasks to get authentication and authorization right, actively preventing security incidents, and always being updated for a service should be straightforward and at the same time provide operational insights part of the platform. As a team we take meaningful steps daily to achieve our mission supporting developers, (security) operations and administrators. Our solution is used across thousands of internal Microsoft Services, and several of our components making up the solution are available as open source in GitHub. Our goal is to bring all our learnings from running services across Microsoft to everyone through GitHub, Entra, Azure, and beyond. There are still many challenges for us to solve to deliver on our mission and to help us we are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager who knows how to build and nurture a high performing team. The role requires experience building seamlessly integrated components which are running in high scale services where elements such as security, resilience, memory, and performance are motivation to get up every day. You work effectively across a large set of organizations and teams across the company operating with a customer first mindset. As a team we work on ensuring our solution utilizes as few resources as possible and we enjoy scrutinizing allocations, we also ensure our API’s are no touch (configuration only) and extensible, and we collect telemetry allowing us and service owner with key insights to effectively operate the service. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Plan and influence technical designs on projects that will have potential long-term impact to Microsoft Help create security best practices and implement secure software solutions. Build and nurture a high performing team. Develop and maintain authentication and authorization components for various platforms, including .NET, Rust, Java, Golang, Python, Node.JS. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as leadership teams, product managers, service owners and platform teams. Make data-driven decisions (quantitative and qualitative). Support service owners ensuring seamless integration. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to the overall improvement of the solution.  
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 We are hiring a Software Engineer II for Microsoft Dataverse. Come work on some of the fastest growing products at Microsoft and in the industry! The Business Applications Group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, AI Builder, Power BI and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered, we're looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team! This is an exciting time to join our group and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Dataverse is the platform to securely store an enormous amount of data in a cost efficient, scalable and easily manageable way. This team builds a suite of microservices to get near real-time insights over your data in Microsoft Dataverse. You will be a part of a fast-paced team of talented engineers who thrive solving complex problems at scale while doing it with impeccable quality. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. As a Software Engineer II you will be responsible for implementing features towards a wide variety of business applications and services within Dynamics 365 products portfolio as well as ensuring they are done to meet quality standards with the end result being software that is used by individuals and businesses throughout the world. In short you will do the following:   • Lead the design and implementation on multi-tenant, enterprise class Storage and Analytics platform. • Build solutions, help create tools, help automate issue detection and diagnosis, to enable customers or support to self-resolve the issues • Identify emerging trends or re-occurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them. This can include a range of potential work item categories; such as self-healing mechanisms, self-serve, transparency, automation, and/or increasing the capabilities for Azure support • Contribute to product improvements by filing impactful bugs, design change requests, and fix and ship them to production, preventing customers from being impacted • Able to work well in difficult situations while exhibiting flexibility and the ability to tolerate and manage through ambiguity and uncertainty • Beyond extensive technical and product focus, this role requires the ability to frame and communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely, show attention to detail, and demonstrate the ability to build broad relationships with the right influencers, leveraging those relationships to impact key business results. Other Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $215,800 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team within the Identity division is looking for a Principal Software Engineer looking to solve large scale problems and deliver the next wave of innovation in Entra ID (formerly called Azure Active Directory) Groups vertical. Groups serve as the core of automation and powers a wide variety of Identity and Access Management services. Our work enables customers to easily manage access to their cloud applications, power collaboration through Microsoft 365 groups and ease management scenarios such as rule based dynamic membership, policy assignment and group life cycle management. We deliver internet scale services and event processing pipelines in Microsoft Graph. Security, availability, performance, and scale are essential for us. On this team, we solve highly complex problems in the critically important cloud security space. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on impactful problems and collaborate with a diverse and talented team. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the broader Identity community and ecosystem, both within and outside Microsoft. We are a collaborative group of supportive team players with an agile customer-driven mentality. Our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a deep sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Work with Engineers and Product Managers to deliver compelling sets of features. Synthesize complex problems to actionable solutions that delight customers using data-driven approach. Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions. Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services. Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews. Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, maintainable, actively monitored and reusable. Expose test coverage issues, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas. Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses. Mentor the team members on engineering practices and facilitate career growth. Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Machine Learning Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.   The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.    Within AI Platform, our team in Evaluation AI is working on cutting-edge NLP and Deep Learning models and building the next generation model evaluation platform.   We are looking for a passionate, creative, analytical Machine Learning Engineer who loves NLP, deep learning and wants to ship products quickly at a massive scale. We will provide a lot of opportunities for you to learn, grow and contribute.    We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will: Work on architecture, design and development of the next generation of Azure AI’s evaluation platform. Work with other researchers, applied scientists, and machine learning engineers in the team to design and build the end-to-end pipelines covering model training, data analysis, model serving and model evaluation. Implement latest evaluation methods from published literature and methods in the industry. Drive new product features and evaluation metrics Embody our  culture and  values
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA $153,550 The Experience plus Devices (E+D) Growth team is seeking a Software Engineer II to help accelerate the adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365. Our team is uniquely positioned at the strategic epicenter of E+D for revolutionizing the productivity business by delivering embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) that drive the growth of our company’s cutting-edge generative AI solutions across the commercial and consumer spectrum. Our team tackles technical challenges across a diverse tech stack, with t he solutions we deliver having a direct impact on the bottom line of the business. This role requires strategic and creative thinking, as well as a passion for building technical solutions that address customer needs.         We are a modern engineering organization that embodies industry best practices in Product-Led Growth (PLG). We are data-informed, hypothesis-driven, and rigorous in measuring outcomes to ensure undeniable customer and business impact. We collaborate closely with industry-leading PMs, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and marketers to build deep customer insights that inform the design of experiences used by hundreds of millions of people every day. We partner with teams across the company to deliver world-class services, and we create experiences that connect with customers across Microsoft products. We play a direct role in driving business growth and framing our business value to end users and our vibrant community of fans.        Building a successful team involves creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. We invest in the health of our team and take "how we work" as seriously as the impact we have on customers and the business. You don’t need to know everything when you join our team; just bring your growth mindset and willingness to learn, and we will provide mentorship and career growth to help you succeed.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design secure, reliable, scalable, and sustainable software.    Develop, validate , release, and derive insights from software that enhances customer experiences as outlined above.     Champion customer-first design that leads to increased loyalty to Copilot and Microsoft 365.    Apply critical analyses to data to validate hypotheses and inform decisions.    Foster an inclusive environment that welcomes diverse perspectives, and in turn leverages that diversity to create more inclusive products for our customers.     Model a growth mindset by learning from others and sharing your learnings with others.    Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 The Experience plus Devices (E+D) Growth team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer   to help accelerate the adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365. Our team is uniquely positioned at the strategic epicenter of E+D for revolutionizing the productivity business by delivering embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) that drive the growth of our company’s cutting-edge generative AI solutions across the commercial and consumer spectrum. Our team tackles technical challenges across a diverse tech stack, with t he solutions we deliver having a direct impact on the bottom line of the business. This role requires strategic and creative thinking, as well as a passion for building technical solutions that address customer needs.         We are a modern engineering organization that embodies industry best practices in Product-Led Growth (PLG). We are data-informed, hypothesis-driven, and rigorous in measuring outcomes to ensure undeniable customer and business impact. We collaborate closely with industry-leading PMs, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and marketers to build deep customer insights that inform the design of experiences used by hundreds of millions of people every day. We partner with teams across the company to deliver world-class services, and we create experiences that connect with customers across Microsoft products. We play a direct role in driving business growth and framing our business value to end users and our vibrant community of fans.        Building a successful team involves creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. We invest in the health of our team and take "how we work" as seriously as the impact we have on customers and the business. You don’t need to know everything when you join our team; just bring your growth mindset and willingness to learn, and we will provide mentorship and career growth to help you succeed.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Design secure, reliable, scalable, and sustainable software.    Develop, validate , release, and derive insights from software that enhances customer experiences as outlined above.     Champion customer-first design that leads to increased loyalty to Copilot and Microsoft 365.    Apply critical analyses to data to validate hypotheses and inform decisions.    Foster an inclusive environment that welcomes diverse perspectives, and in turn leverages that diversity to create more inclusive products for our customers.     Model a growth mindset by learning from others and sharing your learnings with others.    Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 In Mixed Reality , people - not devices - are at the center of everything we do. We're incorporating groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. We're a growing team of talented engineers, program managers and artists bringing greater training and situational awareness to the most extreme customers.  Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, previous work histories, life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our varied backgrounds and unique experiences enable us to be better at building the best solutions for our customers and make for dynamic and joyful collaborations with colleagues!    The Mixed Reality Core OS Software team has an immediate opening for a highly motivated  Senior Software Engineer  with a deep understanding of Android/Linux OS Kernel, HAL, and System Service layers. This individual will require solid software development skills to build performant and reliable drivers and services for our devices. We are the team that develops the foundational software that breathes life into our Mixed Reality hardware, enabling our AI, Runtimes, and Experience teams to collectively create delightful and engaging user experiences.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Gather and analyze system requirements, document specifications, and develop software solutions to meet device requirements  Develop efficient and robust system software for highly dependable systems  Conduct post-implementation validation of software and address any defects identified during testing.  Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to identify and resolve system problems  Integrating, testing, and debugging third-party solutions and collaboration with Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs)  Embody our  Culture  and  Values
Oct 11 Research, Applied, & Data Sciences
Applied Scientist II - Mixed Reality, Spectre AI (Artificial Intelligence) Team
Redmond, WA $153,550 Applied Scientist II - Mixed Reality, Spectre AI (Artificial Intelligence) Team   In Mixed Reality , people—not devices—are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together—whether that’s scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we’re incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. We’re a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. We believe there must be a better way. If you do too, we need you!   The mission of the Spectre AI team is to make fundamental contributions to advancing the state of the art in Geospatial AI, including developing foundation models for aerial object detection, tracking and geolocation, and building an end-to-end AI pipeline using cutting-edge ML (machine learning) techniques and systems optimization. We conduct applied research and integrate our AI solutions on real customer data to deliver high-value and high-impact solutions. We are an extremely agile team that moves fast from ideas to experimentation, and to product development. If you are passionate about exploring cutting-edge ideas and real-world product impact at the same time, this job is for you. We are looking for a motivated  Applied Scientist II to come and join us in delivering the next wave of AI experiences.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. You will apply the latest AI, Computer  Vision and Machine Learning algorithms to build customer-centric solutions.   You will modify and advance the state-of-the-art approaches in object detection and tracking to deliver best-in-class solutions to our customers.   You will optimize the run-time performance of the latest Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms to meet customer’s requirements on various hardware platforms.   Partner with industry-leading Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers and Program Managers to deliver solid technical designs.   Embody our  Culture   and Values .  
Oct 11 Business Operations
Business Program Manager
Redmond, WA $147,550 Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is seeking a Business Program Manager to support the CO+I leadership team responsible for Microsoft’s Air Gapped Cloud (AGC) Construction, Program Management and Operations. CO+I AGC is responsible for planning, procurement, building, and operating Microsoft’s AGC infrastructure datacenters.   To help us accelerate achieving our objectives, growth and transformation, we are looking for a strong candidate, who will report to the AGC GM/Partner leading the Air Gapped Cloud organization. The role will be responsible for working with the leadership team in driving business operations, manage data and analytics for decision making, creating, and managing Rhythm of the Business, driving organizational initiatives, and business process to meet strategic objectives and priorities. This individual must have a blend of strategy, planning, data and analytics, business management, communications, and program management skills to successfully support a Partner. Being part of this team would give you an opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing business and drive strategic execution on our key initiatives.   Global Datacenter Operations is an exciting, rapidly growing organization responsible for operating our cloud infrastructure for Cloud & Artificial Intelligence (C+AI).  We are looking for an experienced Business Program Manager to focus on furthering people-related programs within our datacenter employee population. This position will collaborate with the leadership team, Chief of Staff, Employee Network Groups, and HR Business Partners, etc. to cultivate, plan, monitor, execute, and drive continuous improvements in the datacenters. This individual must have a blend of strategy, planning, communications, and program management skills. Being part of this team would give you an opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing business and to enable our global impact. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.  With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%. Who you are: A systems thinker. Someone who thinks about the big picture and how existing programs can scale across a business and different verticals, driving business relevance while leveraging a corporate framework. A good listener. You are curious and empathetic in your interactions and outreach at all levels of the organization with an eye toward identifying themes and opportunities for organizational excellence. You’re able to process multiple different information flows and make sense of what you’re seeing with a desire to learn and iterate. A relationship builder. You’re skilled at bringing people together to work towards a common goal or challenge. An excellent and timely communicat or; able to communicate succinctly and optimize interactions with senior stakeholders as well as broad employee populations. Someone who has a practical understanding and interest in the impact of organizational culture on lived employee experiences across a broad range of communities.   What you will work on: Execute on the rhythm of business for leadership sponsors and v-team members across multiple workstreams, ensuring focused and timely alignment to the corporate framework and increase the visibility of programs across the organization by presenting in leadership forums. Partner with the Leadership Team, Chief of Staff, and several business partners to understand priorities and identify areas where people programs (such as employee learning and development, morale events, communications, etc.) can help achieve desired outcomes. Act as a strategist and thought partner to in-business Employee Network Groups (ENGs); partnering on events, development of related OKRs, and ensuring groups are supported and connected across the organization. Monitor and analyze employee survey sentiment, feedback from listening sessions and other listening systems to provide regular reports and recommendations to senior leadership and partner teams. Manage, execute, and scale people programs within Datacenter Operations. Leverage proven programs and infrastructure from across the C+AI division while identifying gaps and unique needs that need localized intervention.
Oct 11 Administration
Business Support Administrator
Redmond, WA The Business for Industry Co-Pilot (BIC) team is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, AI Builder, Power BI and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.   We are looking for a Business Support Administrator to join our team.   This role includes scheduling, operations, and an effective use of data and business systems. If you enjoy creating efficiencies and optimizing administrative responsibilities, this role is for you!    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Manage schedules, travel, and strategic time prioritization.    Ability to prioritize the calendar, balancing internal, external, and executive engagement.    End-to-end domestic and international travel planning, including proactive adjustments to drive efficiencies.    Assist the Chief of Staff in the planning and execution of team meetings and events.    Flexibility to accommodate urgent schedule changes or requests.    High level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information.    Other adhoc projects as required under the guidance and leadership of the Org Chief of Staff
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer - Compiler
Redmond, WA $183,700 Industries driven by Graphics Processing Units(GPU) like gaming, machine learning, and technical computing are growing rapidly due to rising GPU performance. As performance increases, so does code complexity, making GPU programming languages ever more critical to these industries. The High Level Shading Language (HLSL) compiler team is responsible for advancing graphics and GPU programming by driving new initiatives to design, implement, and expose the latest in GPU hardware features. We work with hardware partner teams to develop new features, and with game/app developer teams to make sure those features meet their needs. We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer - Compiler to help us define and build the future of GPU programming through HLSL for Xbox and Windows.   In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us!   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Work with our industry partners to ensure our compiler can deliver best in class content and performance Work with customers, partners, and stakeholders to help define a roadmap for the future of GPU programming via HLSL Be heavily involved in new features in the compiler, both design and implementation. Other Embody our culture and values
Oct 11 Program Management
Senior Security Technical Program Manager - CTJ - POLY
Redmond, WA $183,700 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   Do you have a passion for security and excitement about impacting some of the largest and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with today in hosting petabytes of business-critical customer data? We’re looking for a Security Technical Program Manager with the right mix of technical depth, engineering background, on-line services experience, and collaboration skills to help grow and protect Office 365 cloud services. Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy bringing together cloud-hosted offerings of our most trusted communications and collaboration services (like Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and more!) with our cross-platform desktop and mobile clients. Our customers depend on our services to achieve success in their organizations, whether it be a Fortune 100, small business, non-profit, or educational institution. You pass by dozens of our customers on your drive to work every day! Our customers trust us with their most critical data, and we honor that trust with continuous investment and improvement in the security of our services. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will work closely with our engineering teams to make sure that our backend security tech and operations scale as the service grows and expands into new environments. You’ll also work with our customers with specialized security requirements to identify new features our infrastructure security needs to meet, and work with our engineering teams to get those features built. And throughout the process, you’ll continually seek to understand and analyze new and emerging threats that could impact our service infrastructure and build mitigations to protect against those threats.   Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Analyze potential security issues and develop investigation and resolution plans Facilitate implementation of established plans and procedures Communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in-writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner Rapidly react to changing situations and develop new plans based on recent discoveries Drive enhancements at every level of the OSI model to improve detection, response, and remediation Coordinate with internal and external business partners and security teams at a deeply technical level Work with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure security products and operations can scale as Microsoft 365 infrastructure grows Drive service owners within Microsoft 365 to onboard their infrastructure to security products and operations Socialize and drive alignment about upcoming changes and requirements throughout the Microsoft 365 organizations Work with Microsoft 365 customers to understand specialized security requirements for service infrastructure, and work with engineering teams to build those features into service infrastructure Represent security controls met by Microsoft 365 services in audits Any other reasonable activity directed by management
Oct 11 Legal & Corporate Affairs
Corporate Counsel
Redmond, WA $161,500 The Patent Team at Microsoft helps the business navigate the worldwide patent ecosystem to enable the business to drive its strategies globally and freely innovate across all of Microsoft’s products and services. In addition to building a world class patent portfolio that covers some of the world’s most innovative software and hardware, we are the trusted advisor for the business in navigating the highly complex patent landscape.    As Corporate Counsel, you will have a critical role in developing and shaping the patent strategy underpinning our world-class patent portfolio, advancing business-minded IP strategies, and resolving patent disputes. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of law and technology.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  Serve as the primary Patent Counsel for an Experiences and Devices (E+D) MS 365 Core & Fast business unit that is committed to building high-quality experiences powered by cutting-edge AI technologies. E+D MS 365 & Fast focuses on enhancing user experiences and creating new experiences through innovative solutions like Copilot, optimizing core storage latency, and developing robust monitoring systems. As Patent Counsel, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our innovative technologies. You will collaborate closely with our scientists and engineers to harvest inventions and set strategies to best protect key Microsoft innovations. Devise and lead strategies that utilize IP to ensure Microsoft’s freedom to innovate and operate, through licensing and joint development. Engage with and advise senior leaders on creative IP strategies designed to protect Microsoft innovations, enable new business opportunities, and address potential IP challenges. 
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Software Engineering - CTJ - Poly
Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations $128,250 Be a part of the AI revolution! AI is changing the business landscape and Microsoft has emerged as a leading innovator in this field. Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer in the Cloud+AI Silver Team. The AI Enablement team is focused on building, deploying and operating Azure Open Artificial Intelligence (AOAI) in the Air Gapped Clouds. In this role, you will be working on the cutting edge and supporting some of our most important customers.      Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.   The scale of our operations is enormous. Microsoft's products and services are overwhelmingly consumed online, and billions of people use them every day. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no-one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.      Build and support scalable systems and services that enable Large Language models (LLM), such as Azure Open AI, to be operationalized by our customers. Assist in automating the deployment mechanisms of supporting systems such that new region/cloud buildout is touchless.  Work directly with major customers in the industry to both diagnose and provide solutions for their technical AI scenarios. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners. Contributes to efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data with little oversight on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products. Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight. Contributes to efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Checks for visible evidence to demonstrate compliance for product areas. Develops and holds an understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Applies best practices to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods. Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations. Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development. Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team. Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards. Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identifies internal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies. Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality
Oct 11 Software Engineering
Senior Software Quality Engineer- Windows + Devices, Applied Sciences Group
Redmond, WA $183,700 Senior Software Quality Engineer- Windows + Devices, Applied Sciences Group   In Windows + Devices we're seeking a passionate Senior Software Quality Engineer to join Microsoft Applied Sciences Group . You will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest quality of deliverables for our next-generation (Artificial Intelligence) AI devices, built on a custom (Android Open Source Project) AOSP-based OS and AI-first hardware.     This position offers a unique opportunity to explore and implement novel testing techniques at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI cloud services in both incubation and production. You will be responsible for writing tests and ensuring the highest quality of individual components, including low-level drivers and services, AI application, as well as the entire vertical system integration.     Additionally, you will be responsible for automating testing processes for Continuous Integration (CI) and assist in writing specifications and documentations for internal and external partner teams.    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. QA Leadership:   Ensure the highest quality of code and deliverables across system and application engineering teams  Review architecture, designs, and code to maintain the highest technical standards  Ensure the integration of diagnostic mechanisms within end-user applications, like telemetry  Testing and Automation:   Design, develop, and execute tests for hardware subsystems, services, and AI applications  Test and validate the entire vertical system integration to ensure seamless operation across all components, from low-level hardware to user-facing UI  Automate testing processes and integrate them into continuous integration (CI) pipelines Ensure proper integration of automated QA tools, such as static analyzers and automated security assessment tools Documentation:   Document APIs and technical components for sharing between internal and external partner teams  Factory Testing:   Ensure alignment and port existing tests for use on the factory floor Develop and refine testing methodologies through interactions with factory engineers Collaboration and Mentorship: Work closely with a multidisciplinary team of AI researchers, developers, and engineers to ensure the quality of deliverables across teams. Mentor and guide team members, helping them overcome challenges and promoting best practices related to testing and security .
Oct 11 Product Management
Senior Product Manager
Redmond, WA $183,700 Are you a customer-obsessed, AI- First product builder who thrives in transforming Customer Experience processes in Enterprises ? Ar e y ou ready to shift your career in to high gear by leading high velocity product launches and driving hyper growth ? If yes, let’s have a conversation.       The  Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Applications team is on a mission to transform the way our customers serve their customers using AI First Customer Service capabilities . Through our deep product and engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we empower them with AI driven self-service, omnichannel (voice, digital), unified routing and service associate experiences. We work every day with Microsoft’s Customer Support organization as our Customer Zero, always validating our ideas with our most vocal and critical support engineers and leaders first. We Learn. Ship. Scale. Rinse. Repeat. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we innovate and work every day .        As part of Business and Industry Copilot ( BIC ) organization , our AI First C ustomer Service C are Applications are a high growth and critical market segment for Microsoft . Our team builds the applications and Copilot s in D365 Customer Service and D365 Contact Center, Unified Routing and Business intelligence for our customers to run their mission - critical contact centers securely, reliably and at scale . We define, build, and launch product s that enable our customers to provide world class service experience to their customers .  We empower millions of Service representatives globally with contact center capabilities that use the latest in AI , Large Language Models and Contact center technologies for them to deliver effective, agil e and delightful customer experiences.       We are a team that loves big , transformative opportunities and as part of BIC we have consistently innovated and created new solutions to solve some of our most challenging problems.  We value diverse opinions and new, forward-thinking ideas. We have great customer empathy and delight in understanding our customers’ needs.  We use data and key Performance Indicator (KPIs) to guide, improve and grow the success of our products and our customers .      We are looking for a world-class Senior Product Manage r (PM) to join our team. Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on cloud . You will join BIC’s mission to provide our customers with the world-class application services they need to succeed.        Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.     We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our efforts in transforming and improving the way Customer Service is delivered through AI first innovations.  You will bring the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), M a chine Learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLMs), Communication Channels (Digital, Voice), Contact Center Operations , User experience (UX), and diagnostic platforms together to execute on our transformation journey . You will work with senior leadership across the BIC organization and, where applicable, drive alignment and impact across Microsoft’s organizational boundaries.     This is a high impact role with elevated visibility with the BIC executive leadership team and ample opportunities to share success and receive suppo rt from them. The scope of responsibilities includes:   Lead ing a product vision, roadmap and strategy to use generative AI to identify process steps to automate and power a self-learning contact center and build new customer service application experiences   Working with BIC executive leadership and VIP customers to create and maintain strategic alignment   Engaging with engineering teams across Microsoft to align dependencies and co-innovation   Partnering with UX designers , Engineers, and researchers to deliver world-class user experienc es (UX)   Partnering with data science teams to deliver leading AI capabilities and incorporate key insights   Measuring and reporting on the success of the problem space through relevant metrics and Key Performance Indicator (KPIs)   Driving a culture of quality, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork , and e mbody our  Culture  and  Values    
Oct 11 Security Engineering
Senior Security Engineer
Redmond, WA $183,700 Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   Microsoft Azure is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud services strategy and the future of Microsoft. Azure brings together virtualization, compute, storage, authentication, authorization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, media and more to enable anyone to bring their business into the cloud. Azure DevSec, a part of the Microsoft Security organization, ensures Azure is the most secure platform in the world and delivers a secure experience for millions of users worldwide.   We seek a Senior Security Engineer to help discover, diagnose, analyze, quantify, characterize, and drive solutions for the most challenging security problems in Azure through a data-driven, product-driven lens.      Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Vulnerability discovery and variant hunting. Using the available and appropriate methodologies, including threat modeling, penetration testing, security design analysis, fuzzing, SAST (Static Application Security Testing) and DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing), etc., you will examine chosen target systems in detail, looking for vulnerabilities and weaknesses, perform variant hunting looking for larger patterns, conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis over those patterns, and drive solutions upstream in a data-driven, shift-left fashion. Solution design and delivery: You will help design solutions for security problems and partner with service teams and other security stakeholders to ensure rapid adoption of solutions and mitigation of threats from beginning to end. Software development: You will develop proof-of-concept demonstrations, appropriate tooling, scanners, data management systems, and other small tools to better assist in both the discovery and remediation of security issues. Follow through and closure. You will partner with engineers, product and program managers, and leaders around the company to ensure the successful completion of work to address your findings To thrive in this position, you will need a detailed technical understanding of a broad set of technologies and the ability to learn new information at a rapid pace. We do not expect that any individual knows all the technologies that are in scope for this role, rather we are looking for someone who can quickly translate their technical skills from one domain to another, find, assemble, and inspire the relevant technical experts from across the company, and communicate effectively about technical and business risks to engineering and executive leadership.