Excited to solve critical search quality & production debugging problems at scale? Join Microsoft AI Fundamentals to build world‑class metrics & debugging services supporting Bing, Copilot, MSN, Edge, Windows orgs. Bing, MSN and other systems serve billions of transactions via services hosted by hundreds of thousands of servers across the world. You will learn about these large-scale distributed systems and contribute to making them better.

The Microsoft AI Fundamentals team is looking for a Software Engineer II to help build cutting-edge tools, end user quality metrics, and developer productivity solutions for internal consumption for ~10k member org.

We’re seeking a Software Engineer who thrive on consumer‑focused innovation and enjoy tackling complex problems to build intuitive, impactful solutions. Join us at Microsoft Redmond, where our goal is to build not just great products, but great engineers—delivering meaningful features to customers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and growth.

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements AI‑native, secure, scalable code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience on Web front-end development, (React, Angular or similar) AND 3+ months experience vibe coding production quality code.
• Experience with Web UI/JS libraries like React, Angular or similar.

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Software Engineering IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 – $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 – $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.

#MicrosoftAI #ML #AI

Applied Sciences IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 – $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

The Microsoft Bing Web Data Platform’s Document Understanding team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build cutting-edge solutions for document understanding on a web scale.  

The Web Data Platform (WDP) is the data foundation of Bing and many Microsoft experiences, powering Bing Search, ads, Copilot, Grounding API to 1P and 3P scenarios, deep research, LLM training, etc. Our mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, richest, and clean semantic understanding of the web document representation. Our work is central to understanding public web content and advancing the platform’s capabilities in tandem with state-of-the-art modeling. We are at the forefront of applying large-scale machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to understand and enrich web content, fueling critical Microsoft experiences and advancing the frontier of AI.

As part of our team,

• You’ll work with some of the largest datasets.
• You’ll lead projects end-to-end—from ideation and experimentation to deployment
• Collaborating across teams to deliver real-world impact

Join us to shape the future of AI and deliver meaningful value to millions of users.

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup’s project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
•  5 years of experience in product development.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinker with a proven ability to deliver impactful, real-world results.
• Experience working on search and recommendation systems.
• Familiarity with modern machine learning techniques, architectures, and model optimization strategies.
• 4 years of experience in product development.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing pipelines and data mining.
• Experience developing machine learning pipelines, including feature engineering and model optimization.

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.

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Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Microsoft Advertising is a worldwide Sales, Marketing and Operations organization on the cutting edge of the digital advertising industry. Microsoft Advertising offers a compelling portfolio of advertising products, innovative solutions and the opportunity to engage with some of the brightest minds in the digital space while contributing meaningfully to our purpose of innovating a new world of advertising possibilities to empower growth for all. Microsoft Advertising is the destination for experienced, collaborative, and passionate digital advertising professionals seeking a rewarding career and lifestyle. 

Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Chief-of-Staff who serves as a strategic, trusted advisor to the CVP and Leadership Team. The CoS amplifies leadership impact, ensures the business runs effectively, and orchestrates cross‑functional alignment in a fast‑paced, highly dynamic environment. This role blends strategy, operations, communications, culture, and “air‑traffic control” to ensure the org operates as one unified, high‑performing team. The ideal candidate is able to effectively context switch, always pivoting broadly across a number of connected and disconnected workstreams. You serve as the gateway into MAI and represent MSA in a number of critical ways; it’s important you understand the business deeply and can advocate for the needs of MSA across a variety of topics – resourcing, space, communication, employee award programs, recruiting, etc.

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Strategic Advisor: Act as a thought partner and strategic ally to leaders, while simultaneously serving as an honest broker to teams across the organization. You play the role of a true confidant and trusted advisor to the CVP and broader leadership team. Effective advisors are not just “yes” people; they equally advocate for the needs of their team and drive accountability across the organization. 
• Executive Support: Partner closely with CVP to ensure vision and intent are effectively communicated, acting as a force multiplier connecting people, processes, and workstreams behind the scenes. Ensure CVP readiness for internal and external meetings and forums, partnering across the organization to bring the right people and content together.
• Leadership Operating Rhythm: Establish, run, and continually improve the Leadership Team’s operating rhythm, inclusive of Staff Meetings, Offsites, Ad-Hoc alignment topics / meetings, people and talent rhythm (partnering with HR), etc.
• Organizational Operations: Represent, advocate for, and manage a variety of needs required to running the business including, but not limited to: Annual planning, ad-hoc budget and HC investment needs, ongoing budget management, recruiting and HC management, office space.
• People Management: Manage team of two FTEs who oversee Communications and Employee Experiences, ensuring full coordination and dot connecting.
• Employee Experiences: Oversee the strategy and execution of employee programs across career development, onboarding, culture building efforts, D&I and Community management, and more. Partner across HR, Comms, and leaders to elevate culture, D&I initiatives, manager capability, talent health, and employee listening systems.
• Executive Communications: Lead internal communications for the org, driving consistent storytelling of strategy, priorities, and changes. Lead external CVP engagements including customer meetings, EBCs, and industry events.
• Embody and promote Microsoft’s culture and values.
•  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 12+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 15+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, partners, and peers at more senior levels – typically interfacing at the GM+ levels.
• Proven ability to drive cultural change, lead through complex organizational shifts, and build inclusive teams and operating models that foster psychological safety and collaboration.
• High integrity collaborator who seeks win-win and broader organizational benefit while driving toward own goals.
• Positive, can-do spirit and proactive problem solver.
• Proven track record of exceptional performance, high productivity and meeting deadlines in a leadership role; high personal accountability for self and others.

#MicrosoftAI #MicrosoftAdvertising

Business Management M6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 – $277,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 – $303,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Master’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in at least one of programming languages like Python/R/MATLAB/C#/Java/C++
• Comitted organizational, analytical, data science skills. 
• Ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before. 
• Experience with real world system building and data collection, including design, coding and evaluation.  
• Experience with driving large collaboration across multiple teams.
• Experience with communicating with different audiences to provide insights.
• Demonstrated experience in applying statistics, experimentation and metrics to generate clear actionable insights.

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Data Science IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

We’re hiring a Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and Ads recommender systems in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA. 

In this role, you will design and implement cutting-edge machine learning models and algorithms that power relevance systems across all surfaces for Microsoft Ads and Shopping including Bing, Copilot, and beyond. 

You will have a direct impact on millions of users and advertisers, delivering scalable solutions to enhance ad relevance and optimize user experiences. This role is part of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (MAI)-Ads Engineering and is responsible for the end-to-end relevance problem for our ads and shopping products. 

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Own high‑impact and open-ended relevance problem areas across Product Ads and Shopping including providing strategic direction to solve problems and applying deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact.
• Drive algorithmic and modeling improvements to the system using primarily deep learning techniques from NLP and computer vision, including latest LLM models, to deliver clear and measurable product impact
• Exercise solid technical judgment on metrics, evaluation strategies, and tradeoffs optimizing for overall product ROI rather than isolated metrics. 
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, providing design reviews and documenting to share modeling guidance and evaluation best practices for other applied scientists to promote innovation.
• Collaborate deeply across disciplines (Engineering, PM, Research, Data Science), translating scientific intent into production‑ready systems and constraints.
• Operate with high independence and accountability, anticipating risks, planning for unknowns, and requiring minimal oversight to deliver sustained impact at scale.
• Use your deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years working experience in statistical natural language processing (NLP) with the latest deep learning technologies including transformer and LLMs OR 4+ years working experience in Computer Vision (CV) with latest deep learning technologies including Vision Transformers. 
• 4+ years working experience with coding in production systems using C++, C#, Java or Python. 

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Applied Sciences IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Microsoft AI is pushing the boundaries of technology. We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. As a small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. We run lean, obsess about users, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Bing Places team to help define the future of how people search the Web and navigate their lives. Working closely with other MAI teams, you will have the opportunity to define how we use AI to improve our Search journeys, with an opportunity to make a significant impact on our users’ lives.

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Contribute to defining a product area by understanding user needs and behaviors, writing product requirements, and supporting end‑to‑end development, launches, and iterations. Identify long-term investment opportunities and drive business impact across the organization.
• Work through roadblocks and help teams ship quickly and iteratively.
• Translate business goals into product strategy, user experience, and technical requirements in collaboration with UX and engineering.
• Define success metrics, support experimentation, and use data to guide decisions.
• Dive into data to understand user behavior, product performance, and new opportunities.
• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across cross‑functional teams.
• Model our culture and values in daily work.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with AI. 
• Experience with Grounding, Ranking, Query Understanding.
• Experience in the Search space.

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Product Management IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

• Drive building world-class AI applications that will delight consumers and deliver business results.
• Own a product area and be responsible for understanding user needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.
• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, customer-first, product development cycle.
• Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with Applied Science, Data Science, Engineering, UX and Product Marketing/Sales teams.
• Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience building Ads products
• 5+ years of building AI consumer products
• 5+ years of experience in monetization products and B2B
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and adapt to changing requirements and deadlines. 
• Proven ability to collaborate and contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment, fostering knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
• 2+ years experience leading cross functional product teams across advertising, privacy, search, conversational AI, or generative AI.
• 5+ years experience delivering products that include full Search and/or Advertising technology stack.
• 5+ years experience with data analytics and experimentation tools with working knowledge of SQL and coding skills (Python, Javascript).

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Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 – $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Microsoft AI is looking for a Principal Software Engineer – AI Ads, to shape the future of online advertising in Mountain View, CA or Redmond, WA.

You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale shopping ads infrastructure that powers billions of products worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, big data, and deep learning systems while collaborating with world-class scientists and engineers to deliver solutions at massive scale.

Online advertising is one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billion of the $600 billion advertising market already online. Search engines, chatbots, web publishers, major ad networks, and ad exchanges serve billions of ad impressions daily and generate terabytes of user event data. This rapid growth has created enormous opportunities as well as technical challenges that demand advanced computational intelligence. Computational Advertising has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field that combines information retrieval, machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, data mining, statistics, operations research, and microeconomics to solve complex problems. At its core, the challenge is to select an optimized set of eligible ads for each user in order to maximize overall utility—capturing expected revenue, user experience, and advertisers’ return on investment. Microsoft is innovating rapidly in this space to expand its market share by delivering a state-of-the-art online advertising platform and service.

The Shopping Ads Infrastructure & Algorithm team in Microsoft AI is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – AI Ads,  to lead research and development for the next generation of shopping ads infrastructure. In this role, you will design, develop, optimize, and operate the universal product graph infrastructure and manage large-scale datasets that span billions of products in multiple languages worldwide. This product graph powers critical scenarios including Bing Search Ads, Copilot, AI Agents, Product Insights, Selection, Relevance, Modeling, and Personalization. The team leverages deep learning, LLMs/SLMs, AI, NLP, information retrieval, big data, and streaming systems to build high-performance engineering solutions aligned with Microsoft’s Commerce Strategy. You will collaborate with leading scientists and engineers across Microsoft’s global R&D organization to deliver impactful solutions at massive scale.

At Microsoft AI, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while tackling some of the hardest problems in machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, and computational advertising. You’ll collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers, influence product direction, and take on leadership opportunities that expand your technical and professional impact. Our team builds infrastructure that powers billions of products across the globe, directly shaping the future of shopping and online advertising. By joining us, you’ll contribute to cutting-edge AI innovation at massive scale and help transform how users and advertisers connect.

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.

Starting January 26, 2026, MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S., country-specific) of that location. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction. 

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of large-scale shopping ads infrastructure and algorithms.
• Build and maintain the universal product graph spanning billions of products across multiple languages.
• Develop scalable systems for data ingestion, storage, retrieval, and real-time serving at global scale.
• Apply machine learning (ML), nature language processing (NLP), and deep learning (DL) models to improve ad relevance, personalization, and selection.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers across Microsoft AI to translate research into production systems.
• Drive innovation by identifying technical opportunities that align with Microsoft’s Commerce Strategy.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical competence and collaboration across the team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of industrial experience building large scale systems and supporting AI models.
• 2+ years of experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), LLMs/SLMs, and AI Agents.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud services, large-scale big data platforms, and streaming/real-time frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming), and AI infrastructure development.

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 Qualifications

• Committed background in computational advertising, recommender systems, or search engines
• Demonstrated ability to translate high-level vision into detailed, high-quality design and implementation; skilled at integrating both quantitative and qualitative data into decision-making, and effective in both independent and collaborative settings
• Passion for innovation, solving complex problems, and optimizing systems
• Committed to learning and adept at adopting and applying the latest AI technologies to day-to-day work
• Proficient background in computational advertising, recommender systems, or search engines.

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Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 – $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver high quality data solutions. 
• Develop and optimize data models to support data analytics. 
• Utilize advanced analytics techniques to extract insights from large datasets and drive data driven decision making. 
• Implement data validation frameworks and monitoring systems to detect and resolve data quality issues. 
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in data pipelines to ensure timely and accurate data delivery 
• Work with a security-first mindset, focusing on system scalability and maintainability. 
• Coach and mentor peers and emerging team members while advocating for best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling or data engineering work
• Solid experience with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hadoop. 
• Expertise in SQL and experience with RDBMS, Key Value stores. 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and data services. 
• Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team. 
• Solid communication skills.
• Familiarity with Azure. 
• Experience with machine learning and data science tools and frameworks. 
• Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI). 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

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Software Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.