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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Microsoft1,031 open roles

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$119,800 – $234,700 a year
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Redmond, WA, United States, Atlanta, GA, United States
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  6. 45.1%60 days
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Microsoft median: 15 days open

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Overview

Are you a customer-obsessed software engineer who is passionate about using AI to solve complex, real-world problems? The Azure Engineering Operations (EngOps) team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive improvements in cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment is central to who we are and how we work. Our ACES CODE engineering team is building domain-specific agents and intelligent services that are transforming Azure customer support and product quality, moving from reactive, human-only workflows toward AI-first systems that resolve customer issues and product repairs at Azure scale. We are seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production agentic AI services. In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will translate customer and business problems into scalable technical solutions involving LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, tool integration, and AI evaluation. You will write production-quality code, own significant service components, lead technical execution within projects, and help other engineers adopt sound software and applied AI engineering practices. Every day, our customers stake their businesses and reputations on our cloud. You can help Azure EngOps provide the world-class cloud services they need to succeed. 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

Design and build production AI services: Develop scalable agentic AI solutions using LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, agent workflows, tool integrations, memory and state management, and human-in-the-loop experiences. • Lead through hands-on engineering: Write, review, test, and maintain production-quality C# and Python code. Build reusable components, reference implementations, and engineering patterns that accelerate team delivery. • Own end-to-end technical delivery: Translate customer support scenarios and product requirements into technical designs, then take solutions through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. • Build evaluation-driven AI systems: Develop evaluation frameworks using rubrics, golden datasets, simulations, judge models, and offline and online evaluation. Use measurable quality thresholds to guide agents from experimentation toward production operation. • Engineer for production quality: Ensure services meet requirements for correctness, reliability, availability, latency, scalability, maintainability, cost, and safety. • Implement secure and responsible AI patterns: Apply privacy protections, prompt-injection defenses, least-privilege tool access, identity and authorization controls, data boundaries, approval gates, auditability, and fail-safe behavior. • Integrate with Azure services and data sources: Ground agent responses and actions in trusted, current signals by integrating with Azure data sources, APIs, and cloud-native services. • Operate services in production: Implement CI/CD, automated testing, feature flags, staged rollouts, tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting. Diagnose production issues, participate in incident response, and drive corrective improvements. • Make evidence-based technical decisions: Evaluate models, frameworks, prompts, retrieval approaches, and architectural options using experiments and production telemetry. Balance quality with reliability, latency, cost, maintainability, and operational complexity. • Drive measurable customer impact: Instrument solutions and use data to improve automation quality, case-volume reduction, resolution time, engineering efficiency, and customer satisfaction. • Provide technical leadership within projects: Lead design reviews, resolve technical challenges, coordinate implementation across contributors, and align partner teams around shared interfaces and delivery goals. • Mentor and raise engineering capability: Support other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, reusable documentation, and practical coaching in applied AI and production software engineering. • Collaborate across organizational boundaries: Partner with product managers, researchers, platform engineers, Azure service teams, and support-domain experts to deliver durable solutions and shape future platform capabilities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Azure services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, or similar cloud-native technologies).Experience building or integrating with LLM-based systems (prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks). Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production observability. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design fundamentals. Experience building and shipping agentic AI services or multi-agent workflows in production. Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable enterprise AI platforms. Experience designing AI evaluation systems using rubrics, golden datasets, judge models, simulation, adversarial testing, and offline or online evaluation. Experience with RAG systems, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, grounding, citation, knowledge freshness, and access control. Experience implementing agent-security patterns such as prompt-injection defense, identity propagation, least-privilege tool access, data-boundary enforcement, approval gates, and auditable actions. Experience building reliable distributed services with strong standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, and cost efficiency. Experience with infrastructure as code, container orchestration, feature management, and staged production deployment. Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution, influence design decisions, and mentor engineers without formal people-management authority. Experience collaborating with product, platform, research, and partner engineering teams on complex co-development initiatives. Strong business judgment and experience connecting engineering investments to customer and operational outcomes. Background in customer support engineering, supportability, diagnostics, or customer-experience platforms is a plus.
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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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