Member of Technical Staff - Data Infrastructure Engineer

As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad — to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits.    
  
Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking experienced Data Infrastructure Engineers to help build mission applications and platform components for our personal AI, Copilot systems. We’re looking for someone who possesses technical prowess, a methodical approach to problem-solving, proficiency in distributed systems and a mastery of templating to architect solutions that stand the test of time and who will bring an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The Data Platform team is responsible for building core data pipelines that help fine tune models, support introspection and retrospection of data so that we can constantly evolve and improve human AI interactions.    

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.  
 
By applying to this U.S. New York, New York OR Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the New York OR Seattle area and in office 3 days a week. 

Responsibilities

• Work on the delivery of high-quality service and components that will power the experiences across products. 
• Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.  
• Stay current with the latest developments in technologies and bring innovative ideas and insights to the team. 
• Participate in design and code reviews, and contribute to the development of a clean, well-documented codebase. 
• Work collaboratively with other Platform, infrastructure, application engineers as well as AI Researchers to build next generation data platform products and services.  
• Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.   
• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.   
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.  
• Embody our Culture and Values.   

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience in running operational tasks for high volume, low latency data systems.
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