Overview
Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users that impact their daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast-cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) frameworks team with ambitious goals to advance AI technology?
The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes the cutting edge of performance and experience in machine learning in production and research. We bridge the gap between the latest state-of-the-art AI models and hardware eco-systems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world’s fastest super cloud computers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, internet of things (IoT) devices, and internet browsers. The framework we develop is powering AI experience for all major Microsoft products, such as Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, Bing, SQL Server, VSCode, Cognitive Service, Copilot+ PC, and many others.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer II on the team the common tasks of the job would include, but not be limited to:
- Work on design, implement, and test a function or component for our AI/ML frameworks and tools
- Work on speeding up/reducing complexity of key components/pipelines to improve performance and/or efficiency of our systems
- Interacting and collaborating with our partners both internal and external
- Interacting with and providing tech support for our customers/users
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
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 check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in AI frameworks, large scale distributed computation, system programming, compiler or machine learning.
- 2+ years of experience successfully collaborating with cross functional teams, owning deliverables and driving results to meet business objectives.
- Experience working on systems performance optimization.
- Working with Open-Source code.
- Experience developing Inference software stack.
