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Software Engineer II - Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) AI
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewSoftware Engineer II - Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) AI Platform TeamReady to shape the future of how Microsoft runs its $250B+ finance operations with AI? We are looking for an energetic, curious engineer who is passionate about Artificial Intelligence and data to help drive the next generation of intelligent finance systems. The Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) Platform team is on a mission to redefine how Microsoft measures, monitors, and optimizes its global business by harnessing cutting-edge AI. This is a unique opportunity to innovate boldly and apply the latest in large-scale AI (think LLMs, AI agents, and next-gen analytics) to high-impact finance scenarios. You will thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, bring fresh thinking to complex problems, and take ownership of end-to-end outcomes. Join us and drive AI-powered transformation in Microsoft Finance, pushing boundaries and delivering new capabilities that make our business more data-driven, efficient, and intelligent. 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 positivelyimpactour culture every day. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring on-site presence at our Redmond campus three days a week.
ResponsibilitiesBuild Core AI Platform Services:Design, implement, test, and operate shared AI capabilities, including prompt orchestration and versioning, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) adapters, secure tool and skill catalogs, model routing, Responsible AI guardrails, evaluation, and telemetry. Ship AI Applications for Finance:Build copilots, agents, and automation for scenarios such as financial planning and analysis, close and consolidation, revenue and margin analysis, spend governance, and compliance and controls. Integrate with Microsoft Fabric OneLake, Azure Data Explorer, SQL, Spark, semantic models, and vector search. Explore and Incubate New AI techniques:Prototype and evaluate emerging capabilities such as tool use, function calling, long context strategies, structured reasoning, and multi agent patterns. Run small experiments, document findings, and graduate successful approaches into platform features and production experiences. Integrate and Evaluate ModelsUse Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Services to integrate models. Build offline evaluation pipelines and golden sets. Measure groundedness, accuracy, safety, latency, and cost. Run experiments to compare prompts, tools, and model variants. Quality and Operations:Write unit, integration, load, and prompt flow tests. Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing. Participate in on call, incident response, and post incident reviews. Help meet service level objectives and service level indicators. Security, Privacy, and Responsible AI:Apply secrets management, role-based access, encryption in transit and at rest, and records retention. Contribute to risk assessment, red teaming, and content filtering to ensure safe and compliant AI. Plan and Collaborate:Work with product managers and partners to clarify requirements. Engineering leads author user stories and technical designs. Break down features, estimate work, and communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly. Use AI to build fasterLeverage GitHub Copilot for boilerplate code, tests, data transformations, and quick prototypes. Share effective prompts and patterns to improve team velocity and learning. Travel: 0 to 25 percent possible. | |