Software Engineer II
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026. Microsoft scores B on the Alion truth index.
The Contact Center AI team is building the conversational AI runtime that powers the next generation of intelligent, agentic customer engagement across chat, digital channels and real-time voice. We deliver Contact Center AI as a highly available, enterprise-grade service that integrates cleanly with Azure and a broad ecosystem of first- and third-party products, enabling any surface to embed rich contact center experiences and advanced AI capabilities out of the box. We transform Microsoft’s advances in foundation models, multimodal systems, and AI agents into production-ready capabilities that help customers resolve complex needs with speed, consistency, and trust. Our mission is to deliver a world-class agentic platform where Copilot agents can reason, plan, act, collaborate with other agents, and transition seamlessly to human experts-turning frontier AI into dependable customer outcomes on a global scale.
Our charter spans the full Microsoft Copilot Studio (MCS) runtime: intelligent agent authoring, orchestration, and invocation; secure tool and connector execution; knowledge grounding and retrieval; and a dynamic evaluation system that continuously measures quality as agents, models, data, and customer behaviors evolve. We use targeted evaluations, and drift detection to identify regressions early, understand their causes, and iterate rapidly-creating a closed learning loop that improves accuracy, resilience, and consistency over time.
As a Software Engineer II on the team, you will design, build, and operate the features and services at the heart of this platform - writing production-grade code and delivering well-scoped components across the agentic stack, from real-time voice and orchestration to Copilot agents, tool invocation, and the Copilot Studio runtime that brings them to life. You will own the delivery of features end to end with growing independence, partner closely with senior engineers on design, and deepen your technical breadth across the stack. We are an AI-first organization: we rethink every workflow in an agentic way, innovate quickly, and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in an agile, fast-paced, high-energy environment. If this opportunity excites you, come and talk to us!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Be a great engineer - Design, implement, and ship reliable, production-grade features across the agentic stack, taking ownership of the quality, delivery, and support of the components you build.
Build agentic experiences on the Microsoft Copilot Studio (MCS) runtime - contributing to agent orchestration, planning, grounding, memory, knowledge sources, connectors, the Tool Gateway, and the control plane that ties them together.
Contribute to real-time voice agents - low-latency, speech-to-speech experiences with sub-second turn-taking, barge-in, interruption handling, and graceful human hand-off that feel natural in live calls.
Build scalable, resilient backend services using event-driven and service mesh patterns, with high-throughput APIs (REST, gRPC), and participate in the full service lifecycle - CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, on-call, and SLA-driven reliability.
Be customer obsessed - Understand and anticipate the needs of our customers who need to react to an evolving business and technology landscape.
Earn respect - Work in the code, support the service, and understand at a detailed level how the software works; partner with AI/ML, PM, and design, and actively participate in design and code reviews.
Champion Responsible AI - Embed fairness, safety, privacy, grounding, and reliability into everything you build.
In short, we are looking for some great engineers to come and do what great engineers truly love to do: Solve complex problems by building great software.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud technologies (Azure preferred).
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, RAG, tool/function calling, and prompt/grounding strategies.
- Experience with or exposure to Microsoft Copilot Studio (MCS) architecture, conversational platforms, or agent runtimes.
- Real-time voice or speech experience - ASR/TTS, speech-to-speech, telephony/media pipelines, or low-latency streaming.
- Familiarity with CRM platforms, contact center systems, and customer data models.
- Experience delivering features end to end in a production cloud service.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.