Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer
MicrosoftAbout the role
Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer at CoreAI lead complex deployments of frontier models and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundry in production. You will embed with customers where GenAI appliction performance matters, delivery is urgent, and ambiguity is the default. You will use this to map their problems, structure delivery, and ship fast. You will scope, sequence, and build full-stack solutions that create measurable value. You will also drive clarity across internal and external teams. You will identify reusable patterns and share field signals that influences the roadmap.
Success in this role means owning the delivery state across workstreams. You will hold the bar on quality and pace and help Microsoft learn through execution.
Microsoft Culture
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.
Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
- Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn
- Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
- Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
- Contribute directly to the code when progress or clarity depends on it
- Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
- Share field feedback that helps Product to understand where the agents, models and tools succeed and where they can improve
- Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through
- MS Culture & Values: Embody our Culture and Values.
Qualifications
Required Qualification:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in engineering, solution architecture, customer engineering or related roles in the AI, Machine Learning (ML), cloud or enterprise software space.
- Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), agentic AI frameworks and modern AI infrastructure.
- Deep familiarity with LLM models, cloud platforms (Azure preferred) API security deployment best practices and data architectures.
- Experience working with enterprises or digital native customers to deploy complex scalable and responsible AI solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to operate in fast-paced ambiguous and cross functional environments.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background
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