Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Are you excited about working on a new AI product that augments humans who need to reason with unstructured information?

The AI empowerment team is well on its way to create this breakthrough product in long-term partnership with a handful of the largest enterprises globally. The product harvests, creates and harnesses a diverse range of AI models and automatically makes their output intelligible to humans on demand. Our product design point is to help people make sense of information buried in mountains of documents, conversations, photos, videos, 2D and 3D scans, molecular and genetic representations, and emerging device and sensor signals.

If you are looking for an environment that actively blurs the distinction between engineers and applied scientists, and where involving the customer is just another day at the office, then this is the team for you.

Successful candidates must have:

(Required)

* 3+ years of software design and development experience with C# or Java.
* One or more years of experience with scripting languages like Python, Perl, Shell.
* Experience working in software engineering, and can demonstrate best practices for project management, quality control, and product development.
* Easily work cross functionally through front end, back end, and AI based projects.
* Ability to work closely with our data scientists and AI teams to integrate models into the system.
* Proven track record of collaborative design in an agile team environment.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.

(Preferred)

* Two or more years of experience with building APIs and services using REST.
* One or more years of experience with infrastructure automation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
* Designed and developed scalable cloud services using MS Azure infrastructure

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

* Build and operate cloud services for executing artificial intelligence (AI) models.
* Scale such systems using azure infrastructure featuring compute, service fabric, kubernetes, hadoop etc.
* Working closely with partner teams to build a cohesive product that delights our customers.
* Explaining your work, asking good questions, listening and learning from peers, partners and customers.