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Software Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$85.4k - $168.1kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Microsoft Frontier Co., embedded with customers to design, build, and deploy AI-enabled production-grade software and data solutions, delivering measurable customer outcomes and accelerating transformation.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with customers and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define success criteria, and translate needs into technical solutions.
  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable production-grade software systems and services that apply AI and data capabilities where appropriate.
  • Rapidly move from concept to prototype to production, iterating alongside customers to deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Build production-quality software that connects customer systems, data, and AI capabilities into reliable end-to-end solutions.
  • Apply engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and security-first development.
  • Drive end-to-end ownership of customer solutions, monitoring performance, reliability, quality, and maintainability, and continuously improving deployed systems after release.
  • Collaborate across engineering, data science, product management, design, and customer teams to solve complex technical problems.
  • Contribute reusable components, reference implementations, and best practices that can be leveraged across customer engagements.
  • Share insights and learnings from customer deployments to help improve Microsoft products, platforms, and engineering practices.
  • Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement while contributing to the growth of the broader FDE community.
  • Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Programming in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/PythonCustomer-facing communication
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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