Description
Summary
Microsoft are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer at their Mountain View office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI assistant and productivity capabilities. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI and productivity markets.
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join a fast-moving, high-ownership team building next-generation AI assistant and productivity capabilities. This role blends LLM product engineering, evaluation science, hillclimbing, and internal tool building with the pace and creativity of a startup. You'll work across the entire lifecycle of features from early prototypes to production-grade systems and help define how millions of users interact with AI.
Accountabilities
- Design and ship LLM-powered assistant features, including conversational flows, agentic behaviors, retrieval pipelines, and multimodal interactions.
- Build prompt architectures, system instructions, and orchestration logic that ensure reliability, grounding, and personality consistency.
- Prototype new capabilities rapidly and iterate based on user signals and evaluation data.
- Build and maintain evaluation frameworks for correctness, safety, grounding, and UX quality.
- Run hillclimbing loops across prompts, models, and tool-use strategies to continuously improve assistant performance.
The Candidate we're looking for
Experience:
- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Technical skills:
- Experience working on AI products.
- 2+ years shipping production-level code, models, or data analysis.
- 1+ years using AI-assisted coding and analysis techniques.
Personal attributes:
- Operate with startup-founder energy: bias for action, rapid iteration, and comfort with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Data Science IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 – $234,700 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