At Microsoft, we're a community of passionate innovators driven by curiosity and purpose. We collaborate to imagine what's possible and accelerate our careers in a cloud-powered world where openness and innovation unlock limitless potential. Artificial Intelligence is central to Microsoft's strategy-and the Azure AI Platform is leading the charge. As part of our team, you'll contribute to cutting-edge projects that solve real-world challenges using transformative technologies. We are looking for a Software Engineer 2 - Core AI to join our agile team at the core of Microsoft's AI infrastructure. This team is building the Next Gen Scheduling & Optimization Platform-a foundational infrastructure layer that powers OpenAI models and other large-scale AI workloads across Azure. In this role, you will be responsible for managing inferencing capacity that fuels Microsoft's AI ambitions. Our fleet of premium AI accelerators runs state-of-the-art OpenAI models, forming the backbone of Microsoft's Copilots and the Azure OpenAI Service. You'll help dynamically allocate resources across models and customer offerings, monitor usage in near real-time, and rebalance capacity to drive massive efficiency gains. You'll work on high-impact distributed systems that support low-latency, high-volume, mission-critical customer scenarios, solving complex challenges in resource orchestration, telemetry, and performance optimization. You'll collaborate across Azure, OpenAI, CoreAI Services, and infrastructure teams to shape the future of scalable, cost-efficient AI.