Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

What you'll do

• Lead architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale cloud services and AI-powered products, including secure, permission-aware retrieval systems.
• Drive service reliability, performance, scalability, and live-site operations, including monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to evolve foundational retrieval and AI platform capabilities.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment.
• Experience with search technologies, information retrieval, ranking systems, vector databases, recommendation systems, AI/ML systems, LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks, or knowledge management platforms.

Pay

USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)

Tools

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Azure AI Search

AI focus

Develops AI-powered retrieval and knowledge systems, including search and platforms for LLMs, AI agents, enterprise knowledge experiences, and next-generation retrieval.