Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft AI Search | Microsoft Careers

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WA Posted 9 days ago $142,800–$274,800 / year
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TL;DR

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Bing Multimedia team’s Image Search Experience group, you will lead the development of AI-native platforms that integrate multimodal understanding, large language models, and high-performance distributed systems to enhance visual discovery at global scale. Your daily responsibilities include setting technical direction for AI-powered image search, designing durable system architectures, and implementing production-ready solutions that improve relevance and user experience. You will apply advanced AI techniques in real-world scenarios, ensuring scalable platforms with high performance and reliability, while also defining success metrics and experimentation strategies to validate impact. This role requires expertise in large language models, multimodal AI, image processing, and content understanding pipelines, along with a strong track record of mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices at scale.

Skills

Python Java C++ Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch LLMs Multimodal_AI Image_Processing Computer_Vision Scalable_Platforms Performance_Optimization

What you'll do

  • Set technical direction for AI-powered image search platforms.
  • Translate complex user needs into durable system designs and production solutions.
  • Apply large language models and multimodal AI in production systems.
  • Ensure intelligent, adaptive experiences guide users through visual exploration.
  • Design scalable platforms with high standards for performance and reliability.
  • Define success metrics and experimentation strategies to validate impact.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience building search, recommendation, or large-scale information retrieval systems.
  • Hands-on expertise with LLMs, multimodal AI, and AI-driven reasoning systems in production.
  • Proven track record of designing evaluation metrics for AI-powered systems.
  • Strong background in image processing, computer vision, or content understanding pipelines.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices at scale.

Employer

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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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