AI Engineer II - Office AI Team

AI Engineer II - Office AI Team

Are you passionate about shaping the future applications of AI and empowering millions of users to unlock their full potential in the productivity space? Microsoft 365 is where the world works, learns, and creates. Join the Office AI team to reimagine Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, turning intents into outcomes and helping hundreds of millions be more productive every day. Office AI plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of Office, through empowering users to interact with and change their content through natural language, making Copilot more intelligent, proactive and seamlessly integrated into users' workflows, as well as enabling agentic workflows to interact with Office files.

Learn from industry leaders while applying your knowledge of machine learning, natural language processing, and software engineering to real-world challenges. See your work ship to production and help hundreds of millions of users be more productive every day.

As an AI Engineer II you will work in an exciting and fast-paced environment on a product team to ship products globally, collaborating closely across engineering, product management, design, and applied science to deliver experiences to production. You will be part of delivering world class solutions!

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Bring your growth mindset to innovate in way that empowers 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.

• Ship features in collaboration with Product Management, Design, Applied Science and Engineering. Coown scenario goals; translate product requirements into engineering work and solutions that meet quality, latency, and cost targets.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers and scientists to design, prototype, and deliver AI-powered solutions that make Office apps smarter and more intuitive.
• Partner with product managers, designers, applied scientists, and other engineers in a fast-paced environment where your contributions matter.
• Prompting and evaluation of LLMs to deliver on customer scenarios. Leverage AI tools to improve engineering development and processes.
• Debug and investigate customer feedback and production usage and fundamentals of features developed.
• Collaborate across engineering for code reviewing pull requests, reviewing design documents and techniques.
• Embody our culture and values

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 Typescript, Python, C++, C# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience coding in Typescript, Python, C++, C#, or Java.
• 1+ years of experience building products that use frontier models, such as prompting, evaluating or fine-tuning.
• 1+ years of experience in any of the following: machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or statistics.

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 Typescript, Python, C++, C# or Java
  • 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 Typescript, Python, C++, C# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying live production systems as part of a product team.
• Experience collaborating on hybrid or distributed teams across two or more time zones, using both synchronous (live meetings/voice/video) and asynchronous (documents/email/chat/task systems) communication to deliver a shared objective.
• Experience developing task specific metrics and evaluation datasets.
• Experience delivering changes informed by customer signals (such as research insights, usage/adoption, support tickets) that improve customer-facing Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• 1+ year(s) of experience with applied science.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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.