Software Engineering II

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

3d

About The Position

Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users that impact their daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast-cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) frameworks team with ambitious goals to advance AI technology?
The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes the cutting edge of performance and experience in machine learning in production and research. We bridge the gap between the latest state-of-the-art AI models and hardware eco-systems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world’s fastest super cloud computers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, internet of things (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 for representing AI 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 engine.
Foundry Local: an on-device AI inference solution.
We value our team members’ happiness and encourage everyone to constantly learn new things and take risks. We collaborate closely and openly to accomplish big things together 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in ML frameworks, system programming, or machine learning.
• Experience working on systems performance optimization.
• Working with Open-Source code.
• Experience developing Inference software stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test a function or component for our AI/ML frameworks 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 our Culture and Values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level