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As a Senior Software Engineer within the Foundry Agents organization of CoreAI, you will build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems that power the next generation of intelligent agents and generative AI systems. You will be responsible for the end-to-end agent lifecycle, including secure enterprise deployment, governed tool integration, model fine-tuning, and observability for evaluating agentic traces. Your daily work involves designing and implementing distributed systems and cloud services to ensure reliable performance, security, and compliance. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to improve developer workflows and optimize interactions across models, data, and infrastructure. This role solves the technical challenge of creating scalable platform capabilities for reliable, autonomous, and high-impact AI agents at enterprise scale.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Build and scale services for secure agent deployment, governed tool integration, and observability.
Design and implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents at enterprise scale.
Improve developer and researcher workflows through better tooling, abstractions, and automation.
Debug and optimize interactions across models, data, and infrastructure.
Contribute to technical design and implementation across the full software development lifecycle.
Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, and operational excellence.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
5+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems (preferred).
3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems (preferred).
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