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Principal Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer within Foundry Agents building and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems for the end-to-end agent lifecycle, including secure deployment, governed tool integration, fine-tuning/training loops, and observability/optimization in production.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale foundational services that power secure agent deployment and execution, governed tool integration, training/fine‑tuning, and observability/evaluation
  • Design and evolve distributed runtimes and cloud services to run agents securely at enterprise scale with strong reliability, security, and compliance guarantees
  • Improve iteration loops for researchers, engineers, and developers through better tooling, abstractions, and automation across fine‑tuning, evaluation, and optimization
  • Debug and optimize complex interactions across models, data, hardware, and infrastructure
  • Drive technical direction across the full software development lifecycle, influencing design tradeoffs and long‑term architecture
  • Champion operational excellence, secure‑by‑design practices, and responsible AI at scale
  • Collaborate closely with partner teams across CoreAI and Azure to deliver seamless, production‑ready platforms

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree requirement
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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