Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience - MAI Superintelligence Team

Overview

Microsoft AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience to help build the next wave of capabilities of our personalized AI assistant, Copilot. We’re looking for someone who will bring an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will actively contribute to the development of AI models that are powering our innovative products. You will wear multiple hats and work on engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span model architecture, data curation, training and inference infrastructures, evaluation protocols, alignment and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and many other exciting topics at the cutting edge of AI.  

Microsoft AI is building foundational models to develop novel responsible and efficient artificial general intelligence. The foundational models require large compute-capacity, and as a Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience you will play a key role in strengthening the foundation of our machine learning development ecosystem. You’ll be responsible for improving the CI/CD system that powers the entire training codebase, designing and building tools that streamline model training workflows, and enhancing our cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll also help host and optimize models for both inference and data generation use cases, enabling teams to iterate faster and deliver higher-quality results.  

As a key member of the core engineering team, you will contribute by introducing best practices that drive architectural improvements and shape the roadmap for critical software and hardware components. Your efforts will have a direct impact on achieving business objectives for a diverse user base and will help accelerate the next wave of AI-driven growth and innovation.

Microsoft Superintelligence Team 
Microsoft Superintelligence Team’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. This role is part of Microsoft AI's Superintelligence Team. The MAIST is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence — ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs that benefit society — advancing science, education, and global well-being. We’re also fortunate to partner with incredible product teams giving our models the chance to reach billions of users and create immense positive impact. If you’re a brilliant, highly-ambitious and low ego individual, you’ll fit right in — come and join us as we work on our next generation of models! 

Starting January 26, 2026, MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S., country-specific) of that location. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for large-scale ML training workloads. 

• Build developer tools and automation to simplify training and evaluation workflows. 

• Improve and maintain core infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. 

• Deploy and manage model hosting systems for inference and data generation. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive best practices in reliability, testability, and performance. 

• Care deeply about conversational AI and its deployment.  

• Actively contribute to the development of AI models that are powering our innovative products.  

• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into th