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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$142,800 – $274,800/yr

Setup
Remote
Location
Redmond, Washington · New York, New York · +1
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its Copilot evaluation team to set the technical direction and architecture for an AI-first, agent-first offline evaluation platform. The role owns trustworthy evaluation across Copilot’s model, retrieval, and scoring services; designs multi-turn, tool-selection, and end-to-end task evaluations; and leads reliability, observability, guardrails, and modernization for a platform serving growing enterprise-scale demand. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least six years of technical engineering experience, with security screening requirements and ongoing applications until the role is filled.

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