We're a growing team looking for a passionate and experienced Software Engineer. In this role, you'll help define and build the next generation of our agentic platform, orchestrating the latest AI models and harnesses in service of company-wide developer productivity. You'll lead through excellent contributions to the ESAI codebase, advocate best practices for agentic development, and forge technical and mission-based partnerships with other teams across Microsoft working on related problems.
If you are excited about AI's potential and want to be on the front lines of AI-Powered developer efficiency at Microsoft, we want you in ES365 AI.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing.
Use AI in your daily coding and advocate to the team and customers an evolving state-of-the-art of how best to do this.
Demonstrate resiliency to experiment and try multiple AI approaches that may not work — because no one has tried them before.
Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team.
Write and review clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.
Contribute positively to a culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience building with Agent SDKs, large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or similar).
Familiarity with agentic AI development patterns — multi-step reasoning, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Proven experience as a Software Engineer delivering large-scale, production-quality systems.
Solid software engineering fundamentals: system design, algorithms, testing, debugging, and code review.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor peers in a collaborative team environment.
Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces where best practices are still being established.
Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tooling and coding assistants, such as:
GitHub Copilot and Copilot Workspace — AI pair programming, CLI, and task-oriented development
Claude Code — agentic CLI for autonomous software engineering tasks
OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT — LLM-based code generation and explanation
Cursor — AI-native code editor with inline generation and multi-file edits
Prior experience using agentic plugins, agents, skills, hooks, etc.
Experience dogfooding, evaluating, and forming opinions on emerging AI developer tools, and translating those insights into team-wide best practices.
Background in developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or engineering systems at scale.
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
