Microsoft · 1 month ago
Principal Software Engineer - Azure AI Inferencing
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading company in the AI sector, focusing on empowering partners and customers through its Azure AI Inference platform. The Principal Software Engineer will lead efforts in designing, optimizing, and scaling inference systems to ensure high efficiency and performance for large AI models in production environments.
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Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of core inference infrastructure for serving frontier AI models in production
Identify and drive improvements to end-to-end inference performance and efficiency of OpenAI and other state-of-the-art LLMs
Lead the design and implementation of efficient load scheduling and balancing strategies, by leveraging key insights and features of the model and workload
Scale the platform to support the growing inferencing demand and maintain high availability
Deliver critical capabilities required to serve the latest and greatest Gen AI models such as GPT5, Realtime audio, Sora, and enable fast time to market for them
Drive generic features to cater to the needs of customers such as GitHub, M365, Microsoft AI and third-party companies
Collaborate with our partners both internal and external
Mentor engineers on distributed inference best practices
Embody Microsoft's Culture and Values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Golang OR equivalent experience
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
4+ years' practical experience working on high scale, reliable online systems
Technical background and foundation in software engineering principles, distributed computing and architecture
Experience in real-time online services with low latency and high throughput
Experience working with L7 network proxies and gateways
Knowledge in Network architecture and concepts (HTTP and TCP Protocols, Authentication and Sessions etc)
Knowledge and experience in OSS, Docker, Kubernetes, C++, Golang, or equivalent programming languages
Cross-team collaboration skills and the desire to collaborate in a team of researchers and developers
Ability to independently lead projects
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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