Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer - Maia Model Enablement
$143K–$304K
United States · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of technical engineering experience; equivalent experience is an alternative to the stated degree requirement.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads end-to-end technical strategy and engineering to enable AI models on Microsoft’s Maia accelerators and improve their production performance, serving, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Define technical strategy for enabling AI models, architectures, and hardware generations on Maia; align teams on direction and investments.
- Lead cross-stack investigations and drive improvements in performance, scalability, serving, and reliability.
- Build reusable automation and validation systems to make model enablement faster and more reliable.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C++ or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Understanding of modern AI model architectures, inference systems, performance optimization, and serving stacks.
- Experience with hardware enablement, cross-stack debugging, AI-assisted workflows, automation, or leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, Maia
AI focus
Enables frontier AI models on Maia accelerators, including model and serving optimization, validation, hardware bring-up, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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