Microsoft
Software Engineering, CoreAI
$102K–$219K
Mountain View, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years technical engineering experience required; preferred alternatives: Master's Degree and 4+ years, or Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate production-grade generative AI and multimodal systems that turn diverse data into structured insights, improving quality through evaluation and production telemetry.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate generative AI and multimodal systems from concept through deployment and service operations.
- Develop core GenAI capabilities and evaluate tradeoffs across quality, latency, cost, and safety.
- Collaborate with security, privacy, product, and customer partners to deliver enterprise-ready APIs and developer experiences.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and memory/agent frameworks.
- Experience shipping generative AI systems, operating ML/AI systems in cloud environments, or delivering enterprise AI products at scale.
Pay
USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (base salary); USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, MLOps
AI focus
Build production generative AI and multimodal systems; work on retrieval-augmented generation, context and memory, orchestration, data generation, evaluation, and Responsible AI practices.
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