Role at a glance
- Salary
- $142.8K – $274.8K/yr
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, United States Washington, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
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Role Summary
The Principal Software Engineer will work on Microsoft's AI Frameworks team, developing high-performance software that connects AI models with hardware across cloud, desktop, mobile, IoT, and browser environments. The role contributes to technologies including ONNX, ONNX Runtime, and Foundry Local, which support AI inference and training across Microsoft products and services.
What You'll Do
- Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for complex scenarios.
- Provide technical leadership for identifying dependencies and developing design documents for products, applications, services, or...
- Lead by example and mentor engineers to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
- Lead multiple products' project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual and work on-call to monitor systems, products, or services for degradation, downtime, or...
- Improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance while driving consistency in monitoring and...
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View full postingQualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check
Preferred
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding, or...
- Experience developing Inference software stack
- Experience working on systems performance optimization
- Working with Open-Source code
Original job description
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Original job description
Content provided by the employer
- ONNX: an open standard format for representing AI models, enabling AI developers to work on AI models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.
- ONNX Runtime: ONNX based cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator.
- Foundry Local: an on-device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
- Providing technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leading by example and mentoring others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
- Leveraging deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holding accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeking new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
- Embodying our Culture and Values
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience developing Inference software stack.
- Experience working on systems performance optimization.
- Working with Open-Source code.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
About the company
Microsoft
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Microsoft is a global technology leader that empowers individuals and organizations to achieve more through innovative software, services, and devices. Founded in 1975, the company is best known for its flagship products like the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office suite. In addition to personal computing, Microsoft is a leader in cloud computing with its Azure platform, providing a range of solutions for businesses to enhance productivity and efficiency. With a strong commitment to sustainability and accessibility, Microsoft continues to drive technological advancements that shape the future of work and learning.
Microsoft is a global technology leader that empowers individuals and organizations to achieve more through innovative software, services, and devices. Founded in 1975, the company is best known for its flagship products like the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office suite. In addition to personal computing, Microsoft is a leader in cloud computing with its Azure platform, providing a range of solutions for businesses to enhance productivity and efficiency. With a strong commitment to sustainability and accessibility, Microsoft continues to drive technological advancements that shape the future of work and learning.