Principal Software Engineer

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The Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents team is on a mission to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) automations into business applications, simplifying workflows, extending human ability and increasing productivity. Utilizing automated triggers and asynchronous large language model (LLM) orchestration, agents will address previously intractable problems.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.

The individual in this role would design and build intuitive experiences that enable users to create and deploy agent capabilities that solve real world problems at scale.

The Power Platform always places the customer and quality at the core democratizing the AI space by empowering individuals to make smarter, faster decisions relying on the ecosystem of Power Apps, Power BI and Power Automate. The Copilot Studio is also the extension mechanism for Microsoft’s family of Copilots serving millions of end users.

We are a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team that has been designed for maximum autonomy of execution while maintaining strategic alignment with our overall organizational objectives, where everyone's ideas and contributions are valued and you are empowered to innovate and take ideas from concept to scale.

You can learn more about agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio here: https://aka.ms/copilotstudiobuild24

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

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 Qualificaitons:

• 5+ years experience developing distributed applications with C#.
• Experience working understanding of Leveraging LLM to build Bots/Copilots.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

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

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