Senior Software Engineer

The Artificial Intelligence Frameworks team at Microsoft develops AI software that enables running AI models everywhere, from world’s fastest AI supercomputers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, Iot devices, and internet browsers.  We collaborate with our hardware teams and partners to build the software stacks for AI across Microsoft.  
Our stack enables ML developers to optimize and scale out model training and inference.  We work directly with OpenAI on the models hosted on the Azure OpenAI service. The ONNX Runtime is shipped in major Microsoft products, including Office, Windows, Bing, SQL Server, and Dynamics, serving trillions of inferences daily. 

The team operates at the intersection of AI algorithmic innovation, purpose-built AI hardware, systems, and software. We are a cross-disciplinary team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We collaborate with and contribute to the open-source community.   

As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple levels of the AI software stack, including the fundamental abstractions, programming models, compilers, runtimes, libraries and APIs to enable large scale training and inferencing of models. 

This is a hands-on technical role: as a senior software engineer it requires hands-on software design and development skills. We’re looking for someone who has a demonstrated history of solving technical problems and is motivated to tackle the hardest problems in building a full end-to-end AI stack.  An entrepreneurial approach and ability to take initiative and move fast are essential.

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.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in algorithms, software engineering principles, and computer systems. 
• 1+ years experience with Machine Learning Infrastructure.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years experience building AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• 3+ years experience building Server side distributed systems.
• 3+ years experience working on systems performance optimization.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.   Find additional pay information here:  https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html  

 Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work

• Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs. 
• Collaborate broadly across multiple disciplines from hardware designers to ML developers.  

• Help establish and drive the adoption of good coding standards and patterns.  

• Perform software development in C/C++, Python, and other languages.  

• Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables.
• Embody our culture and values