# Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-senior-applied-ai-engineer/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_64650440-64c

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted coding and analysis techniques
- AI products