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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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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Core OS team to build new Artificial Intelligence platform capabilities for Windows Server across on-premises and hybrid customer deployments. You will design and implement usage tracking, policy, and efficiency metrics for AI capabilities while building observability pipelines through telemetry insights and health signals. Your daily work involves developing the management layer for AI inference toolchains, including model lifecycles, catalogs, and protocol gateways. You will also design validation plans to assess infrastructure quality and coordinate with security teams to meet platform release requirements. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, or TypeScript. You will solve the technical challenge of translating cloud-connected AI ideas to air-gapped, hardened operating system environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design and implement systems to track usage, policy, and efficiency for AI capabilities.
Build observability pipelines using telemetry insights, diagnostics, and health signals to monitor on-premises infrastructure.
Develop the management layer for AI inference toolchains, including model lifecycles and catalogs.
Create language and protocol gateways for AI inference toolchains.
Design and implement validation plans to assess infrastructure quality and end-to-end workflow experiences.
Coordinate with security and compliance teams to ensure the toolchain meets platform release requirements.
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.
5+ years of professional software engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, or TypeScript (preferred).
Experience designing automated tests and validation for shipped software (preferred).
Demonstrated knowledge of Server administration and management features (preferred).
Familiarity with Server deployment and usage strategies in air-gapped or on-premises environments (preferred).
Understanding of AI model catalogs, model servers, protocols, and inference layers (preferred).
Familiarity with the current state of the art around observability and diagnostics (preferred).
Experience with systems software development, deep systems architecture, driver development, and code architecture/design for complex software systems (preferred).
Java
Python
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C++
C#
Kubernetes
Docker
RESTful APIs
CI/CD
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