Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer - Maia Model Enablement
$120K–$261K
United States · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C++, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Enable AI models on Microsoft’s Maia accelerators, optimize their production performance, and build systems for validation, serving, and hardware-software debugging.
What you'll do
- Bring new AI models and architectures to Maia and resolve issues across software, systems, and hardware.
- Improve performance, scalability, and serving for production AI workloads; build automation and validation infrastructure.
- Partner with model, runtime, infrastructure, and hardware teams to deliver production-ready solutions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C++, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- 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, and performance characteristics.
- Experience with AI/ML frameworks, runtimes, or serving stacks; performance analysis, distributed systems, accelerators, hardware bring-up, or AI-assisted engineering tools.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM
AI focus
Enable AI models and architectures on Maia; optimize and serve production AI workloads; use AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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