About the Role

Principal ML Software Engineer role at Microsoft focusing on generative AI and engineering for Office applications. Responsibilities include designing AI services, building end-to-end ML pipelines, and developing scalable evaluation systems. The role involves collaborating with product teams to innovate and improve product performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver AI services for large-scale product offerings
• Design and build end-to-end pipelines covering model training, data analysis, serving, and evaluation
• Design and develop scalable systems for benchmarking AI models with automated evaluation and visualization
• Build and maintain a robust data platform for model evaluation workflows
• Collaborate with product management and partner teams to align technical direction with business goals

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#, Go, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 6+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems
• Experience building AI or ML related applications

Nice to Have:

• 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C++, C#, Go, Java, or Python
• 3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or AI systems
• Experience building or maintaining evaluation systems, benchmarking tools, or ML model testing frameworks
• ML, statistics, and data science experience

Benefits & Perks

• Industry leading healthcare