Overview
Join the team that powers the most widely used operating system in the world. Windows is evolving into a secure, agent-first platform, and the Windows AI Platform team is at the forefront of this transformation. The team's mission is to lay the foundation for an agent-first Windows experience, driving innovation and reliability for users worldwide.Our Charter: Advancing Windows through Three Pillars
- Search: Delivering fast, reliable, and relevant system and semantic search capabilities across all Windows surfaces. This enables users to quickly find information and resources, enhancing their productivity and overall experience within the Windows ecosystem.
- Agentic OS (AgOS): Developing secure primitives that empower agents to sense, reason, plan, act, and learn. These capabilities are designed with trust and privacy as core principles, ensuring that users’ data and activities remain protected while leveraging intelligent agent functionalities.
- AI Foundry / Windows AI APIs: Equipping developers with robust tools to build AI-powered applications. Through offerings such as Windows ML, WebNN, and Foundry, the team simplifies the processes of model conversion, optimisation, and hardware acceleration, making it easier for developers to integrate advanced AI capabilities into their applications.
Empowering Developers and Shaping User ExperiencesThe Windows Developer Platform team is responsible for creating the foundational capabilities that allow developers to build rich and modern applications for Windows. The team’s work has a profound impact, influencing the daily computing experience of more than a billion users around the globe. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape next-generation platform capabilities, collaborate across engineering teams, and contribute significantly to the ongoing evolution of the Windows app platform.Team ValuesOur team celebrates diversity in thought, background, and experience. We actively welcome individuals who bring curiosity, creativity, and a strong growth mindset, fostering an environment where new ideas and perspectives can thrive.
Responsibilities
- Define long term architectural direction for major areas of the Windows developer platform, ensuring durability, clarity, and alignment with strategic product goals.
- Lead complex technical efforts that span multiple teams, ensuring cohesive design, high reliability, and forward looking extensibility.
- Provide deep technical leadership for critical platform components and represent the area in cross org technical forums and design reviews.
- Anticipate platform needs, identify capability gaps, and guide teams toward innovative and scalable solutions.
- Use customer signals, telemetry, and ecosystem insights to shape strategic decisions that improve product reliability, developer experience, and platform adoption.
- Drive the integration of AI native patterns across the engineering lifecycle, including AI powered developer workflows, semantic tooling, and intelligent platform capabilities.
- Mentor senior and mid level engineers, elevate design quality, and model a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and inclusion.
- Influence engineering processes, tooling, and standards across partner teams to improve velocity, quality, and consistency.
- Build strategic partnerships across the Windows org and broader Microsoft ecosystem to align investments and deliver cohesive developer experiences.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python- OR equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience designing, delivering, and maintaining large scale or mission critical software systems.
- Deep proficiency in systems programming with languages such as C, C ++, C #, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated ability to create and communicate architectural strategies that guide multiyear engineering investment.
- Solid cross-org leadership skills with the ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders around shared outcomes.
- Expertise in structuring complex problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and driving clarity in ambiguous technical spaces.
- Advanced understanding of AI systems include model capabilities, retrieval augmentation, evaluation frameworks, optimization patterns, and responsible AI principles.
- Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers, elevating design quality, and developing next generation technical leaders.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to connect deep technical concepts to business and platform goals.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10 or more years of experience shipping commercial software or platform technologies on a scale.
- Experience shaping developer platform architecture, application frameworks, operating system components, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience building or integrating AI powered platform capabilities, intelligent developer tools, or semantic interaction layers.
- Solid history of setting engineering standards, improving organizational architecture health, and driving long term technical investments.
- Demonstrated success influencing product direction across multiple engineering groups or organizations.
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Other Requirements
: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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
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