Software Engineer II and Sr. Software Engineer - AI Frameworks

Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users thatimpacttheir daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast-cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore AI/ML frameworks team with ambitious goals to advanceAItechnology?

The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes thecutting edgeof performance and experience in machine learning in production and research. We bridge the gap between the lateststate-of-the-artAI models and hardwareeco-systems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world's fastest super cloud computers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, IoT devices, and internet browsers. The framework we develop is powering AI experience for all major Microsoft products, such as Windows,Office,Microsoft 365,Bing, SQL Server,VSCode, Cognitive Service, Copilot+ PC, and many others.

As a Software Engineer on our team, you would have the opportunity to work on:

• ONNX:an open standard format forrepresentingAI models, enabling AI developers to work on AI models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.

• ONNX Runtime:ONNX based cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator.

• Foundry Local:an on-device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API.

We value our team members' happiness and encourage everyone to constantly learn new things and take risks. We collaborate closely and openly toaccomplishbig thingstogether while having fun.

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.

Employees who live within 50 miles of Redmond, Mountain View, Boston, and NYC are expected to be in the office 3 days a week. Employees who live more than 50 miles from a Microsoft hub may work fully remotely.

As a Software Engineer on the team the common tasks of the job would include, but not be limited to

• Design, implement, and test a function or component for our AI/MLframeworks and tools

• Speeding up/reducing complexity of key components/pipelines to improve performance and/or efficiency of our systems

• Interacting and collaborating with our partners both internal and external

• Interacting with and providing tech support for our customers/users

• Embody ourCultureandValues

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

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:

• 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#, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in AI frameworks, large scale distributed computation, system programming, compiler or machine learning (ML).
• 2+ years of experience building Android applications from scratch.
• Experience working on systems performance optimization.
• Working with Open-Source code.
• 4+ years of experience successfully collaborating with cross functional teams, owning deliverables and driving results to meet business objectives.