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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$165,600 – $296,400/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
Redmond, Washington
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Software Engineering IC6 to design and ship AI systems end-to-end, including LLM-based services, retrieval and grounding pipelines, agentic workflows, model adaptation, evaluation, observability, and responsible AI practices. The role leads technical direction, mentors engineers, and requires strong coding, cloud, and applied AI/ML experience. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $165,600-$296,400 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

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