Software Engineer 2

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet

Within AI Platform, the AI Foundry team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning model. Our AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team is at the forefront of this mission, working on groundbreaking projects for customizing of OSS models. We collaborate closely with research institutions, industry leaders, and organizations worldwide to create innovative solutions that impact millions of users.

Job Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer 2 in our team, you will:

• Write clean and concise code with unit tests
• As a contributor in a customer-obsessed team, you will collaborate with data scientists and other developers on the team to create the necessary abstractions, infrastructure, interfaces and implement features to train, test, validate for machine learning algorithms including but not limited to data cleaning, model training, hyper parameter tuning at massive, distributed scale. You will also be working on scaling these features for big data using distributed systems. You will drive the incorporation of these customer-inspired innovations into our software. You will take holistic ownership of your features.
• Your responsibilities will include contributing to and/or backend stateful services written in C# hosted on Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers to provide meaningful features to the customers. You will also be working on improving Python SDK's existing features, designing new features, implementing them in our distributed, multi-component SDK, and owning the full lifecycle of the features including testing and release.

Required and Preferred

• 4+ years of experience writing production code in building internet scale services and distributed systems. Ability to debug, read code and work on a large and increasing codebase.
• Engineering knowledge of machine learning systems and data pipelines.
• Experience mentoring other developers, working partners and being a team player.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.