Description
Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineer - AI Frameworks to lead technical vision, architecture, roadmap, and execution for AI frameworks, performance engineering, benchmarking, and developer-productivity capabilities. The role involves cross-team alignment, ambiguous cross-stack investigations, hands-on implementation, observability and automation, and measurable improvements to model onboarding, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity. Candidates need a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least 8 years of technical engineering experience coding in C++ or Python, or equivalent experience; preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, 12+ years of experience, or 15+ years of experience, along with extensive distributed systems, architecture, accelerator-aware optimization, AI/ML, and platform leadership experience.
