Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Full-Time
Posted Sep 05, 2025
Hybrid
About the role
The Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content.
Responsibilities
- Design, and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
- Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
- Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the team’s DevOps culture.
- Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
- Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.
- Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product’s business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor'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, Go, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- 6+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further.
Job Details
Salary Range
$139,900 - $274,800/yearly
Location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Employment Type
Full-Time
Original Posting
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