| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
WA
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Closes
Nov 24, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k
This role $209k
$106k most similar roles pay here $293k

This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

Employer

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 728 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 664 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Microsoft

At a glance

TL;DR · | Microsoft Careers

As a Principal Software Engineer joining Microsoft’s Business & Industry Copilots group, you will lead the architectural design and development of AI primitives within the Dataverse platform, focusing on scalability and real-time insights. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing scalable AI infrastructure, fine-tuning models, developing evaluation frameworks, curating datasets, and collaborating with product managers to define scenarios and analyze scorecards. You’ll work closely with a team dedicated to solving complex problems at scale while maintaining high-quality standards. The role requires expertise in Python, C#, and cloud technologies like Azure, along with experience in machine learning and data engineering. This position is integral to Microsoft’s leadership in Software as a Service for business applications, particularly in the realm of AI-driven solutions.

What you'll do

  • Lead architectural design for new AI primitives in the system.
  • Design and build scalable AI infrastructure to support large datasets.
  • Fine-tune AI models to improve accuracy and efficiency.
  • Develop frameworks for experimentation and evaluation of AI systems.
  • Curate datasets and drive quality improvements in AI model outputs.
  • Analyze scorecards from experiments to refine AI performance metrics.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in designing scalable AI infrastructure.
  • Proficient in fine-tuning and developing AI models and experimentation frameworks.
  • Strong background in curating datasets and ensuring high model quality.
  • Expertise in collaborating with product managers to define datasets and analyze scorecards.
  • Experience leading data acquisition efforts and formatting data accurately.
  • Deep understanding of architectural design for creating new AI primitives.
  • Skilled in analyzing experimentation scorecards and driving innovation.

More like this

Similar roles

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Mountain View, CA 53 days ago $142,800$274,800
Python Java JavaScript C# Azure AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL MSSQL
Hybrid

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 57 days ago $119,800$234,700
Azure Python Java Scala Spark Hadoop HDFS Kafka Flink Docker Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins
Hybrid

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 52 days ago $142,800$274,800
Azure Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Terraform Prometheus Grafana Git Jira Swagger RESTful APIs JSON YAML DevOps Scrum Agile
Hybrid

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 178 days ago $119,800$234,700
Python Pandas NumPy Spark Ray Apache_Beam Azure PostgreSQL Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Git Jupyter_Notebook TensorFlow PyTorch Hugging_Face GitHub Visual_Studio_Code Prometheus Grafana

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 46 days ago
Azure Python C# JavaScript R Terraform Bicep Azure Functions Docker API Management Azure Cognitive Services Azure OpenAI Azure AI Search Vector Indexes Azure Document Processing Infrastructure as Code CI/CD

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 42 days ago $165,600$296,400
Python SQL Azure Kubernetes Terraform GitHub JIRA PowerBI Metricbeat Elasticsearch Kibana CI/CD Prometheus Grafana JSON YAML Markdown Swagger REST_API SOAP_API