Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and deliver trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. 

The Azure Firmware/Software Center of Excellence is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be a key leader in leveraging cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to improve efficiency as we develop and light up innovative hardware solutions that power Azure. From driving integration of the latest AI developer tools to building new AI applications to streamline fleet management and quality improvement, this role is about innovation at scale as we strive to make our world-class infrastructure even better. 

This hands-on role will provide technical leadership across the organization and on a growing team tasked with accelerating our productivity and processes so that every developer can achieve more. To be successful in this role you must have a great track record of delivering quality results to customers, an engineering mindset, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in software engineering. 

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

• Drive education and adoption of the latest AI developer tools across the organization. Establish and iterate on best known methods tailored to the team’s development goals and unique environments.  

• Stay up to date on cutting edge developments across the fast-moving AI landscape. Distill and propagate the latest advances throughout the team. 

• Provide overarching technical leadership and direction to a team focused on driving adoption of and innovation through the latest AI capabilities. 

• Partner with stakeholders across the team to identify opportunities to build new AI-based solutions to improve engineering efficiency across development, validation, monitoring, and live support. 

• Lead and support the development of new solutions hands-on through architecture, implementation, and deployment. 

• Lead and drive highly complex and mission critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services. 

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