Software Engineer 2 - AI Platform

Would you like to help shape the next generation of AI experiences on Windows, the operating system used by more than a billion people around the world? Come join the Windows AI Platform Engineering team. We build the foundational platform, APIs, evaluation capabilities, and developer tools that enable Microsoft teams and developers to create intelligent, reliable, and engaging experiences across the Windows ecosystem.

Our platform enables first-party and third-party product teams and developers to build high-quality, reliable, and responsible AI-powered experiences across a broad range of devices and hardware configurations. It brings together model integration, developer APIs and SDKs, evaluation and quality measurement, runtime orchestration, observability, and production engineering. You will help turn emerging AI capabilities into scalable platform building blocks that operatereliably atWindows scale.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to build and ship dependable Windows AI platform components, APIs, evaluation capabilities, and developer tooling. You will own features end to end, collaborate across engineering, product, and applied science teams, and use data and engineering rigor to deliver consistent experiences across devices, configurations, and release channels.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. We build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer II within the Windows AI Platform Engineering team, you will:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality components, libraries, services, APIs, and SDKs for the Windows AI platform.
• Integrate AI models into scalable platform workflows while keeping interfaces consistent, extensible, maintainable, and easy for developers to adopt.
• Build capabilities that scale from local experimentation to broad Windows deployment, accounting for hardware diversity, resource constraints, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Own features from design through coding, testing, self-host validation, and safe rollout, with a solid focus on quality, reliability, and performance.
• Build automated evaluation and regression capabilities for output quality, correctness, performance, reliability, and responsible AI requirements.
• Use telemetry and data-driven debugging to diagnose issues across model, runtime, API, OS, and application boundaries.
• Use performance, power, memory, reliability, and compatibility data to improve AI experiences across Windows devices and deployment rings.
• Prototype new AI capabilities and convert successful explorations into robust platform features.
• Collaborate with product managers, applied scientists, partner engineering teams, and senior technical leaders to clarify requirements, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, incident analysis, safe rollout, security, privacy, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, and effective use of developer tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline AND 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Solid proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C++, C#, Python, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of software and API design, testing, debugging, data structures, algorithms, and source-control practices.
• Experience building reliable software components, developer platforms, cloud services, or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex features end to end with appropriate technical guidance.
• Solid problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience with AI/ML systems, model integration, inference pipelines, prompt or agent orchestration, or AI application development.
• Experience with evaluation frameworks, quality metrics, benchmark datasets, experimentation, or AI regression testing.
• Experience with Azure, cloud-native services, containers, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
• Experience with Windows development technologies, Visual Studio, Windows SDK, WinAppSDK, systems programming, Windows servicing, compatibility, or application lifecycle management.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or developer communities through GitHub.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance considerations.

What Success Looks Like

• Ships well-designed platform features with measurable quality and reliability.
• Delivers capabilities that behave consistently across supported Windows devices, configurations, and application scenarios.
• Improves developer adoption through clear APIs, documentation, samples, and actionable diagnostics.
• Uses evaluation and telemetry data to find regressions early and drive engineering decisions.
• Builds trusted partnerships across platform, product, and applied science teams.

Culture and Inclusion

We value curiosity, customer focus, engineering excellence, respectful collaboration, and a growth mindset. We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and perspectives and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel that they belong.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to characteristics protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Reasonable accommodation is available during the application and recruiting process. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country where you work.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.