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Software Engineering II and Senior Software Engineer (CoreAI - Post Training)

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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United States, Washington, Redmond, United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations$102.1k - $202.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Builds and evolves distributed AI platform services for large-scale reinforcement learning and post-training workflows, focusing on speed, safety, and reliability of AI infrastructure and compute orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve distributed services that underpin massive training runs
  • Improve iteration loops for researchers and engineers
  • Debug complex interactions between models and hardware
  • Apply advanced performance optimization techniques that directly impact product quality and operational excellence
  • Develop deep expertise in ML systems, AI infrastructure, and compute orchestration
  • Ship platform capabilities that enable mission critical AI workloads for customers around the world
  • AI-Native Development: leverage AI tools across the SDLC, maintain AI-generated assets, apply SDLC/engineering health measures, experiment with AI to improve capabilities
  • Coding: produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code; apply metrics and best practices; identify blockers and plan mitigations
  • Design: support architecture proposals, explore design options, collaborate with architects, contribute to design documents, ensure performance and scalability requirements are met
  • Engineering Excellence: apply security practices, define security invariants, integrate security gating and monitoring
  • Implement: plan, break down work, consider security/privacy/compliance, flighting for production readiness, capacity planning, rollback planning
  • Reliability and Supportability: operate live services, implement incident response and postmortems, improve observability and on-call efficiency

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#, Python, or Java, OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree in CS or related fieldProgramming in C/C++/C#/Python/Java

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check required
  • Open to security screening as per policy
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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