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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$142,800 – $274,800/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Mountain View, California · Redmond, Washington
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Software Engineering IC5 for its Artificial Intelligence Frameworks team to develop and evaluate core algorithmic and hardware technologies for large-scale AI model training and inference. The role involves collaborating with ML researchers, system engineers, and production engineers; evaluating LLM performance and quality; building software tools for LLM optimization; and developing software in model scripting or kernel languages such as Python, C/C++, and CUDA. 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 position is filled.

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