About the Role

Principal Software Engineer role at Microsoft's Copilot Studio AI Orchestration team, focusing on technical leadership for AI workstreams, building high-quality features, and coaching engineers. Responsibilities include leveraging generative AI models to power conversational and autonomous agents, collaborating across teams, and ensuring service reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements
• Drive identification of dependencies and development of design documents
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code for performance and maintainability
• Drive experimentation to determine effectiveness of changes and interpret results
• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor and restore systems

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) experience building generative AI applications or services
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
• Pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to Have:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience OR equivalent experience
• 12+ years of industry experience in fullstack or backend development, shipping services through multiple releases

Benefits & Perks

• Industry leading healthcare