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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
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As a Principal Software Engineer - AI Experiences, Copilot Engineering, you will join a team focused on redefining how users interact with their PCs through advanced AI. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems and agent-driven development to build systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing tasks for next-generation computing experiences. Your daily responsibilities include designing and developing secure, performant platform services and features for Copilot across Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. You will collaborate with infrastructure engineers and researchers to ship high-quality code in a fast-paced development cycle. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Additionally, you will leverage experience with AI coding agents and prompt design to drive adoption of agentic workflows and improve engineering velocity for these complex products.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $195000 from 1914 postings across 140 companies.
Design and develop next-generation products and features for Copilot experiences across Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms.
Build secure and performant platform services that support Copilot functionality on multiple operating systems.
Develop systems that can reason, plan, and execute tasks to power agentic computing experiences.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code in a fast-paced development cycle.
Define best practices for prompt design, tool usage, and human-in-the-loop systems.
Drive the adoption of agentic coding tools to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Master's Degree in Computer Science and 12+ years of engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and 15+ years of engineering experience (preferred).
Extensive hands-on experience using modern AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot (preferred).
Track record as a team expert for AI-assisted or agentic development workflows (preferred).
Experience driving adoption of agentic coding tools to improve engineering velocity and code quality (preferred).
Experience defining best practices for prompt design, tool usage, and human-in-the-loop systems (preferred).
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Generative AI
Agentic Systems
Terminal User Interfaces
Systems Design
Benchmarking
open-source
Software Development Lifecycle
Debugging