Principal Software Engineer, AI Agents and Monetization

Microsoft AI is looking for a talented full stack Principal Software Engineer to help build the next wave of monetization capabilities of our personalized AI assistant, Copilot. We’re looking for someone who will bring an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment and is excited about the AI space (esp. Agents) and the challenges that come with it.

The Clarity team is responsible for providing cutting-edge behavioral analytics tool that helps users understand how people interact with their websites or apps, using which, businesses can enhance user experience and outcomes for their clients. The newly formed Agents team within Clarity is dedicated to advancing AI systems that can act autonomously, make decisions and take actions without direct human intervention and handle complex tasks, adapt to new information and improve over time, driving delight for our users and revenue for our customers.

As a Principal Software Engineer in Clarity Agents team, you will help drive industry-leading innovation on the infrastructure, reasoning, tools, actions, measurement and user experience while scaling up and scaling out the microservices in a rapidly evolving field. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, become an expert with practical application of AI-Agents for any e-commerce entity, have a deeper understanding of the various components and complexities of running a AI-monetization system at scale while working with industry leaders. Come be a part of team that solves the monetization problem for AI and LLMs for Microsoft and for the industry.

 

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

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for the Advertiser Agent product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• 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#, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 31, 2024.

 

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.

 

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