Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers substantial value due to its role in advanced AI/ML development within a leading tech company, along with a competitive salary.
- Salary competitive: $119,800 – $234,700/year
- Leading role in AI product development
- High growth potential in AI/ML field
- Requires strong coding and machine learning skills
Pros
- Competitive salary range of $119,800 - $234,700/year
- Cutting-edge work in AI and ML with major impact
- Opportunity for collaboration and learning in a high-caliber team
Cons
- High expectations for technical skills and experience
- May involve high-pressure project deadlines
- Limited remote work options
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid / in-office with no travel
Good fit
- Experienced AI software engineers
- Professionals eager to innovate in machine learning
- Experts wanting to lead AI feature development
Not recommended for
- Entry-level engineers without specific AI/ML experience
- Candidates requiring full remote work
- Individuals without proficiency in multiple coding languages
Motivation fit
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Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Mountain View, California, United States
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Overview
On our team, understanding the customer is just the beginning. We analyze customer data, understand their problems, and identify ways to solve it by maximizing the potential of foundational models or finetuning models to address specific needs. A flexible problem-solving attitude and the ability to collaborate across disciplines are vital. You will be responsible for working within Microsoft’s industry-leading commitments to user privacy and ensuring that your models and features adhere to Microsoft’s Responsible AI policies to ensure fair and unbiased experience for all.
The PowerPoint team boasts mature development and engineering systems. Our engineers benefit from rich telemetry, data-driven decisions, rapid experimentation, and building on a world-class platform. We also have a great management team with extensive experience to help you advance your career. Our products and portfolio are rapidly expanding, and we are excited to meet the challenges of scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability as we build the world's finest storytelling software.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML to join our team in Mountain View, CA.
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. 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or statistics.
- 4+ years of experience in software development.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Statistics, Econometrics, or related field AND 3+ years related experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Statistics, Econometrics, or related field AND 5+ years related experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software development.
- 3+ years of experience in end-to-end development for building, shipping, and iterating on high-impact ML models.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with coding in multiple languages.
- Proficiency in using ML libraries from sources such as Hugging Face.
- Expertise in implementing, training, and debugging transformer-based ML models and other related tools and technologies for building and shipping large language models (LLM) applications.
- Deep knowledge of algorithms, machine learning, and distributed/cloud computing systems (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Azure).
- Contributions to open-source ML projects are a plus.
- Ability to quickly ramp up on various domains within Machine Learning.
- Experience shipping high-quality products at scale is a plus.
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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 November 14, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Develop customer features leveraging the full potential of large language models.
- Finetune and deploy Machine Learning (ML) models, create data pipelines, and manage training and test datasets.
- Measure the impact of models and work with product teams to design Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered experiences.
- Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment and collaborate effectively with engineers and applied scientists in the team.
- Embody our culture and values
