Principal Software Engineer, Perception Platform and AI Systems

What you'll do

• Set architecture and long-term strategy for AI platform capabilities, including RAG, memory, reasoning, and agent systems.
• Design secure, reliable, and compliant AI architectures, including identity, authorization, safety, evaluation, and observability.
• Align engineering teams and senior technical leaders across organizations; establish reusable patterns and mentor senior engineers.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in listed languages, OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have

• Master's Degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
• Experience architecting large-scale distributed or AI systems, including agentic AI, RAG, and identity and authorization.

Pay

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

Tools

C, C++, C#, Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI focus

Architects enterprise Generative AI, RAG, memory, reasoning, agentic and multi-agent systems, including identity, safety, evaluation, and production operations.