Principal Software Engineer - ML

Role Overview: As a Principal ML Software Engineer at our team, you will have the opportunity to work at the intersection of generative AI and engineering for Office. You will drive cutting-edge projects, contribute to the Copilot ecosystem, and help shape the Agentic future with one of the most widely used software products in the world. Key Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and deliver AI services to support product offerings for large scale. - Design and build the end-to-end pipelines covering model training, data analysis, model serving, and model evaluation. - Design and develop scalable systems for benchmarking AI models, including pipelines for automated evaluation, metric tracking, and result visualization. - Build and maintain a robust data platform to support model evaluation workflows, including ingestion, versioning, and storage of datasets and model artifacts. - Demonstrate good understanding of LLM architectures, training, and inference. - Collaborate closely with product management and partner teams to align technical direction with business goals. - Innovate on technical solutions and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products. Qualification Required: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Go, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience. - 6+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems. - Experience building AI or ML related applications. Company Details: Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.,