Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Overview
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the SW/FW Centre of Excellence team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with a track record in Cloud Service development to come help us develop and light up innovative AI-based solutions to improve engineering efficiency across development, validation and monitoring. To be successful in this role, you must have a great track record of delivering quality results to customers, an engineering mindset, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in software engineering.
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Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of industry experience in AI/ML engineering using platforms and languages/frameworks such as
Python, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Azure AI Foundry, Mem0, Azure AI Search.
- Proven experience in designing, building, and deploying AI agents across the autonomy spectrum—from retrieval-based to task-oriented and autonomous agents.
- Strong background in developing web applications and services that integrate AI/ML models for business insights and automation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), including training, fine-tuning, and inference optimization for multi-billion parameter models.
- Familiarity with the full ML lifecycle: data engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Understanding of embedded systems, firmware development, OS concepts is a strong plus.
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.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI agents using modern agent development frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, AI Foundry).
- Build scalable, production-grade AI services that integrate with enterprise systems and workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define agent capabilities, communication protocols, and compliance requirements.
- Optimize agent performance for real-time inference and continuous learning.