Microsoft
Principal Software Engineering Manager, CoreAI
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- Required: 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience. Preferred alternatives include a master's degree and 8+ years, a bachelor's degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience; additionally listed are 5+ years managing engineers, 5+ years designing large-scale cloud services, and 4+ years in machine learning infrastructure, hosting, and operations.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a team building customer-facing Responsible AI services, overseeing engineering delivery, service quality, and production readiness across Microsoft’s AI organization.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, and lead software engineers; review designs and code for large-scale distributed cloud services.
- Drive cross-organizational project development, release plans, and end-to-end production readiness, including DevOps practices.
- Ensure services meet business requirements and KPIs, using data and telemetry to make service decisions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- 5+ years directly managing software engineers building backend services, cloud infrastructure, or platforms; 5+ years designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
- 4+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning model infrastructure, hosting, and operations; the posting also lists advanced-degree or longer-experience alternatives.
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
AI focus
Leads development of Responsible AI services focused on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring risks in AI-generated and human-generated content across text, image, audio, video, and multimodal formats.
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