This role pays more than
59%
of similar roles. Most pay
$180,862–$226,050
— the shaded band above.
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$209k
versus about
$203k
for comparable roles.
Based on 239 similar postings.
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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
622 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$119,800–$234,700
across 571 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Software Engineer on Microsoft’s AI Frameworks team, you will work across multiple layers of the AI software stack, including abstractions, programming models, compilers, runtimes, libraries, and APIs, to enable large-scale training and inference of AI models. Your daily tasks will involve benchmarking OpenAI and other LLMs for performance on GPUs and Microsoft hardware, debugging and optimizing their performance, and monitoring regressions to ensure continuous improvements in deployment speed and efficiency. You will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions that support major Microsoft products like Office, Windows, Bing, SQL Server, and Dynamics. The role requires expertise in C++ or Python, experience with high-performance applications on CPUs/GPUs, familiarity with DL frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX Runtime, and proficiency using GPU profiling tools for end-to-end performance analysis and optimization of state-of-the-art LLMs and HPC applications.
Python
TypeScript
REST API
AWS
Docker
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redshift
Snowflake
ETL orchestration
LLM-assisted development tools
Claude Code
GitHub Copilot
CI/CD