Software Engineer II

Overview

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet. 

Within AI Platform, the AI Foundry team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning model.

Our Azure AI Foundry Model Customization Team is at the forefront of this mission, working on groundbreaking projects for customizing OpenAI and OSS models. We collaborate closely with research institutions, industry leaders, and organizations worldwide to create innovative solutions that impact millions of users.

If you're passionate about AI, love tackling complex challenges, and want to contribute to the next generation of language models, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply now and let's build the future together

Responsibilities

As a contributor in a customer-obsessed team, you will collaborate with data scientists and other developers on the team to create the necessary abstractions, infrastructure, interfaces and implement features to train, test, validate for machine learning algorithms including but not limited to data cleaning, model training, hyper parameter tuning at massive, distributed scale. You will also be working on scaling these features for big data using distributed systems. You will drive the incorporation of these customer-inspired innovations into our software. You will take holistic ownership of your features.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Independently use appropriate artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Work with appropriate internal stakeholders to understand customer/user requirements for a set of features
• Create a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, executes test plans, and builds testable code.
• Create extensible and maintainable product feature code for minimal defects.
• Review product feature code to ensure it contains the correct test coverage and follows team standards. Implements debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to verify assumptions.
• Strive for automation within production deployment aiming for zero-touch when possible.
• Apply and reviews coding patterns, security risks, and compliance issues in code reviews
• Apply security best practices to achieve security hardening across product features.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's / 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 equivalent experience.
• Experience writing production code in building internet scale services and distributed systems. 
• Ability to debug, read code and work on a large and increasing codebase.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Engineering knowledge of machine learning systems and data pipelines, a plus.
• Experience collaborating with developers (and other stakeholders) and being a team player.
  
  

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.

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.