The Artificial Intelligence Frameworks team (AIFX) at Microsoft develops the software used to optimize and deploy the world’s most advanced AI models on Microsoft's AI supercomputers. The pace of innovation in AI is unprecedented, with new models, architectures, hardware platforms, and optimization techniques emerging continuously. To keep pace, our team must be able to develop, validate, and deploy our software quickly and reliably. We are seeking a Developer Experience Engineer II and/or Senior Developer Experience Engineer - AI Frameworks, to enhance and accelerate our software engineering work. This engineer will build and maintain development workflows, build pipelines, CI systems, containerized development environments, SDK packaging and release pipelines, AI performance dashboards, and software productivity tools that our team relies on to develop, test, and ship our software efficiently. Our culture is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with researchers, hardware architects, platform engineers, and other software groups across the company.
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
In the role of Developer Experience Engineer II and/or Senior Developer Experience Engineer - AI Frameworks, you will be responsible for the following:
- Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions.
- Design and build developer tools & customer SDKs for novel hardware platforms.
- Collaborate broadly across multiple disciplines from hardware architects to ML developers.
- Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables.
- Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture.
- Implement and optimize CI/CD, deployment automation, and production readiness processes.
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++, 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.
- 2+ years experience with C/C++
- Experience with modern build systems and tooling (e.g., CMake, Azure Pipelines, Bazel, Ninja)
- Experience managing and organizing large C++ codebases.
- Experience building and managing containerized workloads
- Experience developing and publishing SDKs
- Experience building developer tools and specifically developer tools for AI
- Experience profiling and measuring performance
- Experience implementing and optimizing AI workloads
- Technical background and solid foundation in software engineering principles
- Intellectual curiosity and an interest in learning new technologies
- Cross-team collaboration skills and communication skills
- A commitment to a diverse and inclusive workgroup culture
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, Python, or similar languages
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter
- 2+ years of experience with C or C++
- Experience with modern build systems and tooling such as CMake, Azure Pipelines, Bazel, or Ninja
- Experience managing and organizing large C++ codebases
- Experience building and managing containerized workloads
- Experience developing and publishing SDKs
- Experience building developer tools, especially tools for AI
- Experience profiling and measuring performance
- Experience implementing and optimizing AI workloads
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles
- Intellectual curiosity and interest in learning new technologies
- Cross-team collaboration and communication skills
- Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workgroup culture
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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