Software Engineer II

Our team in Azure GenAI is at the cutting edge of developing large language model technologies to power Azure AI Platform products and offering them as a service for both internal and external applications. We are the Azure OpenAI team, and we collaborate deeply with OpenAI and numerous Microsoft product teams, including GitHub and Office.  

The team is looking for a passionate, creative, and analytical individual contributor with a background in designing and scaling distributed systems with focus on safety and performance. You will work on making large language model available on scale for product-driven scenarios.  

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team.  

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Understand state of the art LLM fine-tuning and training workflows and contribute to new features and platform enhancements in a fast-paced startup-like environment 
• Apply strong engineering principles to design, implement and maintain scalable, reliable, secure and performant finetuning platforms using Microsoft Azure  
• Collaborate with product groups across Microsoft and within AI platform 

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 4+ years of relevant software development experience
• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming and proficiency in C#/Python or similar languages
• Good understanding of modern cloud native infrastructure, distributed systems and frameworks.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of ML concepts, deep learning, LLMs
• Hands-on experience with Azure or any major cloud provider
• Experience with orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and modern devops paradigms 

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