דרושים Principal Engineering Manager ב-Microsoft ב-United States, Washington

for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge world. The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Team is a small, specialized group that advises our CEO and executive leadership team on driving, assessing, and prioritizing the long-term strategic direction and growth for the company across its portfolio of existing and new offerings. The team has builta track recordof spotting trends early andthroughout the company. The group broadly focuses on three sets of activities:

• Thought leadership on the future state of the industry (e.g., economics of the cloud) and potential impact to Microsoft’s overall strategy

• Counsel to executives on multi-billion dollardecisions (inclusive of “needle moving” growth drivers, large strategic acquisitions and partnerships, portfolio optimization, etc.)

• Internal projects to ensure Microsoft’s processes and operations enable the company to grow and achieve our mission

As a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Team, you will drive formal quantitative and qualitative analytical decision support on high-priority, cross-company strategic issues. Example project areasideation, andcompetitive analysis and game theory.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years, marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster's Degree in Business Administrationor related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance

or Preferred Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster’s Degree in Business Administrationor related fieldAND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company,entrepreneurship).
• 6+yearsexperiencein Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

Corporate Strategy

• Develop and deliver divisional level analysis, options, execution plans, and recommendations based on analytical rigor, logic, and subject matter expertise
• Proactively spot strategic opportunities missed by others and plot insightful approaches to address them
• Investigates and provides an analysis of competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends. Investigates and provides analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding, and public market environment and trends. Conducts market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest.
• Develops an understanding of Microsoft’s product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. Investigates and provides an analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding and public market environment and trends. Supports and reviews product roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans, and related Issues.

Research, Analysis, & Framing

• Conducts market-based research by identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls); interprets information with guidance from tenured colleagues as needed, including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions.
• Assists in refining initial framing established by project lead for strategic questions and applies structure to analysis.

Problem Solving & Insight

• Guide project team problem solving through development of frameworks/methodologies to create insightful analysis and recommendations; identify the right question to frame the team’s work
• Synthesizes findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions; leverages insights to support strategic recommendations for Microsoft, with guidance from project leads.

Communication

• Produce high-quality executive communications and arguments to facilitate discussions and decision making
• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Communicates and advocates insights to business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through multiple iterations of feedback and vetting, creating and executing outlines.
• Delivers project findings, recommendations, and implications to business partners to facilitate discussions and decision making.

Business Partner Relationships

• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering). Builds working relationships with project stakeholders and business partners.
• Shares knowledge with business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) on a particular area of expertise, leveraging and broadening deep technical/product knowledge and market awareness for a domain to inform strategic business decisions.

We are building a planet-scale multi-modal database from the ground up. You will be part of the team that is reimagining the databases in the era ofLarge Language Models (by deeply integratingArtificial Intelligence (into all parts of the stack.

As aSenior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead and collaborate with a team of passionate engineers, driving ideas to impactful results in a fast-paced environment. You will work on designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learningsystems, withemphasis on production-grade solutions involving data pipelines, distributed training, model serving, and performance optimization. You are experienced in machine learning engineeringfrom ideation and algorithm selection,to architecture and implementation, to deployment and continuous improvement.

great communicationskills helps deliver superior products and is key to success. This is

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree inComputerScience,Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • ORMaster's Degree inComputerScience,Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR DoctorateinComputerScience,Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in training large-scale modernMachine Learning (ML)models (e.g., transformers, diffusion models, foundation models).
• Hands-on experience inkey model optimization techniques (e.g., mixed precision training, distributed training, fine-tuning, RLHF, LoRA).
• Familiarity with model evaluation, data curation pipelines, and reproducible research practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degreein ComputerScience,Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or related fieldAND 12+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctoratein ComputerScience,Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, or related fieldAND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of modern deep learning frameworks such asPyTorchor TensorFlow, and scalable training infrastructure.
• First-author publication in top-tier machine learning conferences or journals (e.g.,NeurIPS

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 3, 2025.

• velopand deploy scalable Machine Learning models.
• Develop robust evaluation frameworks to assess model performance, conduct systematic benchmarking, and addressidentifiedweaknesses while ensuring compliance with customer standards.
• Defines the vision and strategy for collaboration efforts between researchers and development teams at the individual product level. Bringsnew technologyand approaches into production by applying long-term research efforts to solve immediate product needs. Drives high-stakes negotiations across teams to ensurecutting edgetechnology is being applied to products in a practical way that meets key businessobjectives. Ensures that teams apply an understanding of research approaches used across and outside of the company toleverage(and not re-invent) solutions.Representsthe organization across the company.
• Incorporates key business and product requirements to define a clear agenda and vision that influences the direction of the company/products and provides a competitive or strategic advantage. Drives programs structured around the specificity of key business challenges. Provides strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems.
• Embody our and .

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Pipelines team within AI Foundry Agents Platform, you will play a crucial role in developing a cloud service that enables AI application developers and data scientists to author and processAI Agents for Enterprise applications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical disciplineAND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • ORequivalent experience.
• Experience with microservices architecture, Kubernetes (K8s), NGINX, observability (logs, metrics, etc.), and network layer protocols.

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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with K8s cluster creation, management, and optimization.

• Expert level knowledge around security and compliance experience for K8s.

• Solid understanding of networking in K8s for inter, intra, and external pod-to-pod, control, and data plane communications.
• Security Configuration and Compliance: Configure, update, andmaintainsecurity tools used for endpoint security, log collection and reporting, vulnerability, and compliance scanning. Hardening and compliance with best practices, benchmarks, andremediatevulnerabilities as reported by security.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Understand User Requirements: Partner with stakeholders todetermineuser requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs.
• Design: Lead architecture discussions, create design documents, and ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements.
• Coding: Produce extensible and maintainable code, optimize and debug code, andparticipatein code reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Implement: Drive project plans, lead experimentation todeterminethe effectiveness of changes, and ensure safe deployment of solutions.
• Reliability and Supportability:Maintainlive service operations, develop playbooks for issue resolution, and reduce incident volume.
• Engineering Excellence: Enhance andidentifynew developer tools, apply automation in production, and stay current withnew trendsand technical solutions.
• Other:Embody our

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical disciplineAND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, Java, JavaScript, React Native, TypeScript, or Python
  • ORequivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience building software and complex services.
• 5+ years experience in designing, building, and managing highly available and distributed large-scale services.
• 5+ years experience with cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, or others, and familiarity with cloud concepts such as containers, orchestration, serverless, and microservices.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor related technical fieldAND 10+years technicalengineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • ORMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical fieldAND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with proven testing, debugging and analytical skills
• 1+ years experience working with DevOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, testing, and monitoring
• 1+ years experience working with Generative AI/LLMs and related application architecture patterns.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 19, 2025.

• Shape system architectures that provide measurable customer value, along with driving engineering and operational excellence across products and services.
• Design and build scalable, multi-tenant solutions that serve divergent business and user needs in a broad capability area.
• Design and build solutions in an agile way, prototype and iterate with stakeholders, deliver value iteratively through MVP releases and fast-follow value-add enhancements, to support critical business needs. Dynamically adjust engineering plans to support impactrful priority business asks.
• Design and build modern AI-first experiences that enable efficient completion of business workflows and support users in-the-flow-of-work decision making.
• Deliver solutions with quality and user satisfaction, in a measurable and data driven way.
• Oversee partnerships with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Technical Leads, Technical Program Managers) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines across MCAPS businesses.
• Oversee teams and provide technical leadership for identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with appropriate stakeholders to drive project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor the service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore the service when appropriate.
• Act as a gatekeeper for product compliance, identifying and addressing security/privacy concerns.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, scalability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Partner internally to  improve  the overall productivity through recommendations  and  improvements to tools and processes.

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