Senior Software Engineer, Fauna
Microsoft Research is working to transform the future of artificial intelligence by bridging the gap between cutting-edge general AI and the specialized, real-world applications that drive meaningful impact. To pursue this mission, we’re building world-class AI infrastructure that not only powers our models on large GPU clusters, but also accelerates our research lifecycle through agentic development.
Our team has a global scope, powering the work of every Microsoft Research lab around the world. We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help our research teams go from “what if” to “what’s next” faster and more elegantly than ever before.
You will play a leading role in developing our infrastructure, platform, and systems’ architecture, strategy, and roadmap. You will wear multiple hats and work on engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span the full stack of design and development of supercomputer GPU clusters, workload optimization, researcher tools, agentic workflows, and many other exciting topics at the cutting edge of AI.
If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and want to be part of a team that’s shaping the future of intelligent systems, we invite you to explore opportunities with us.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Design, test and maintain large scale research platforms that drive our compute clusters, optimizing uptime and performance across diverse hardware.
Develop end to end systems, libraries, and tools that accelerate the pace of research (including agentic development).
Gather data and insights to develop the AI Infrastructure (compute and engineering systems) roadmap, identifying long-term investments and emerging technologies that will supercharge our systems.
Provide vision, expertise, mentorship, and technical leadership to other team members.
Collaborate closely cross-discipline with service engineers, product managers, and research and science teams to build better solutions together.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Microsoft builds Windows, Azure, Office and the Copilot family of AI assistants, and operates one of the largest AI training and inference fleets in the world. Microsoft Research and the AI platform teams work across foundation models, systems for large-scale training, and applied ML in every product line.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company is also OpenAI's principal compute partner and ships AI tooling for developers through GitHub, VS Code and Azure AI.
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