Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph/Entity Systems

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Entity Data team within Microsoft AI Search. Our team develops AI-powered systems that identify, extract, enrich, and understand real-world entities from large-scale content sources.

This role focuses on solving challenging problems in information extraction, entity understanding, entity resolution, and knowledge acquisition from unstructured and semi-structured data. The ideal candidate is passionate about applying software engineering, machine learning, and LLM technologies to improve the quality and coverage of entity intelligence at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop systems for entity extraction, enrichment, and understanding from diverse content sources.
• Apply machine learning and LLM-based approaches to identify, classify, and enrich entities and their attributes.
• Build solutions for entity resolution, disambiguation, and linking across multiple data sources.
• Improve entity quality through precision/recall analysis, evaluation frameworks, and data-driven experimentation.
• Develop scalable workflows for processing large volumes of structured and unstructured content.
• Collaborate with applied scientists, data scientists, and product teams to bring AI-powered entity capabilities into production.
• Drive technical design, implementation, testing, and operational excellence for entity intelligence systems.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership across the team.

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.

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.
• Experience working with machine learning or AI-driven systems.
• Experience processing and analyzing large-scale structured or unstructured datasets.
• Solid understanding of software design, distributed systems, and production engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive projects from concept to production.
• Excellent problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills.