Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft bets on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the next growth opportunity for the company Large language Model (LLM) driven innovations are happening throughout the industry. At the core of our mission lies the pursuit of next-generation productivity experiences. To achieve this, we’ve harnessed the power of large language models (LLMs) using Microsoft 365 Copilot. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot is your steadfast companion in the world of work. Copilot in Word provides the first draft that one can edit and iterate upon. It writes, edits, summarizes, and creates alongside you. We’ve taken bold steps, enabling Copilot in Word to empower millions of users. But our journey has just begun. Challenges abound—fine-tuning prompts, ensuring responsible AI, providing grounded but creative content, adapting to diverse writing styles and meeting ever-increasing user expectations.  Our commitment extends beyond productivity. We’ve woven Copilot into the fabric of enterprise security and privacy. As we reimagine work, we invite you to join us on this transformative journey. Let’s turn words into impact, one keystroke at a time. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in creating next-generation productivity experiences. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop innovative features for Word Copilot. You’ll work on full-stack development, from crafting intuitive front-end interfaces to building robust back-end services. Leverage LLM to create intelligent agents that assist users in real time, and customize and configure Word Copilot to meet the unique needs of individual users and organizations.  

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc. of a product. 

• Drive the engineering culture to strive for a scalable architecture, operational excellence, experimentation driven culture, growth mindset, and being customer obsessed   

• Driving innovation and changes by influencing, leading, and collaborating effectively across leadership, teams, and organizations    

• Driving features, projects, and open-ended problems towards resolution   

• Willingness to contribute to full stack including UI development. 

• Take initiative to identify and fix bottlenecks, proactively create the proposals for further improvements of the system, process, and owned product   

• Work with international teams within Microsoft.

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with C# or Javascript
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience building products across the full stack using problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting code.
• 2+ years with distributed services and modern front-end frameworks like React 
• Experience debugging and diagnosing web or service issues.  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building LLM based productivity experiences 
• Experience developing new features in a large codebase on an established product across multiple versions. 
• Experience with conversational systems, building ML tooling or working with LLM’s, Voice Assistant skills, natural language processing concepts and fundamentals. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

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