Software Engineering IC4 - AI/ML

Do you want to work on a product that touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Do you want to work on the next set of innovations to transform it further and revolutionize it?

Our CEO Satya’s mission is for Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Inline to that, Microsoft is embarking on the exciting new journey to revolutionize the most beloved and popular product ‘Windows’ even further to make its experiences more modern and seamless in order to delight its users and make them even more productive and successful.

The Windows team is growing a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft, India with a broad portfolio of applications to help innovate on the next version of Windows. We are focused on building New Signature and Personalized Experiences on various Windows flavors that will make our customer onboarding much more seamless and more productive. You will get an opportunity to collaborate across multiple teams within the Windows group and across product groups within the company.

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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are reimagining Windows in the era of AI. As a Applied Scientist you would play the role of a fullstack AI Builder , and be at the forefront of this transformation—designing, building, and scaling intelligent experiences that blend multimodal input, agentic workflows, and generative AI to make Windows most Inclusive O.S for everyone and people with disabilities. You’ll work in a fast-paced frontier team focused on delivering high-impact features that make Windows more intuitive, inclusive, and human.

This role sits within the Windows Empower team, whose mission is to build inclusive, accessible, and empowering experiences for all users—especially those with disabilities. From voice-first interfaces to screen readers and AI-generated speech, we are redefining how people interact with their devices with the power of Human cantered AI.

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  You be deeply involved in Software Development, Testing, Integration, Deployment, Partner collaboration and Innovation aligned with product strategy . You be hands on in building robust, high quality products using cutting edge technology using AI.

• Hands on development for critical platform features in partnership with other ICs .

• Design and implement and experiment end-to-end AI-powered user experiences

• Build scalable fullstack solutions that integrate AI models (LLMs, vision, speech) via SDKs, APIs, and custom pipelines.

• Collaborate with other engineers to optimize model selection, inference performance, and user interaction loops.

• Partner with PMs, designers, and researchers to prototype and validate new interaction paradigms.

• Contribute to the architecture and infrastructure for AI-first features, ensuring reliability, privacy, and compliance.

• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, telemetry, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualification(s):

• 8+ Overall experience End- end shipping of commercial software, with atleast 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, predictive analytics or research, and exposure to generative AI/LLM/SLM algorithms.

• Work experience in delivering products using C++, C# is preferable.

• A Customer focused innovation mindset

• Passionate about Craftmanship in engineering

• Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.

• Experience building AI/ML solutions is good to have. Aptitude to learn and adapt with intensity and agility is required.

• A BS degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience.