Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI
$120K–$304K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 11, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; preferred alternatives include 8+ years with a master's degree or 12+ years with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds cloud-native platforms and services for deploying, training, evaluating, and optimizing AI agents at enterprise scale.
What you'll do
- Build and scale services for secure agent execution, governed tool integration, fine-tuning, and observability.
- Design and implement reliable distributed systems and cloud services; improve developer and researcher workflows.
- Debug and optimize model, data, and infrastructure interactions; contribute to software design, implementation, testing, and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems; 3+ years with machine learning or AI systems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary); 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
Develop agent platforms and workflows spanning secure deployment, governed tools, model fine-tuning, observability, evaluation, and optimization.
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