Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
AI Labs is an innovation and incubation organization within Microsoft 365 Copilot. We drive frontier innovation for Office by turning bold ideas into working proofs, bringing a cross-application perspective and moving with agility. Our teams explore AI-native systems and experiences, rapidly prototype ideas, validate them with real users, and partner with product teams to bring proven concepts into production. Our work spans systemic intelligence, agentic experiences, and AI-native engineering, with a solid focus on creating meaningful customer and business impact.
Our culture
We will only achieve our mission of transforming how others work if we live our culture. We start with becoming learners in all things and apply that mindset to learning about our customers, being diverse and inclusive, working together as one, and, ultimately, making a difference in the world. In AI Labs, this also means operating with curiosity, prototyping quickly, learning from evidence, embracing responsible experimentation, and treating both successful outcomes and well-reasoned course corrections as valuable learning.
More about the Role
Building frontier AI experiences and platforms for Microsoft 365 presents broad and evolving engineering challenges. We work across applications, agents, models, data, and cloud services to turn ambiguous ideas into reliable, secure, and scalable prototypes and production-ready solutions.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of complex AI-native systems, rapidly validate technical hypotheses, and help teams move from concept to working proof with high engineering quality. You will define architecture and design patterns for significant feature areas or subsystems, build critical implementations, and guide multiple engineers through execution. You will collaborate across engineering, product management, design, applied science, and partner product teams to evaluate customer value, technical feasibility, and a path to production. You will also help establish solid foundations for security, privacy, responsible AI, observability, evaluation, reliability, and cost efficiency from the earliest stages of incubation.
Our customer needs evolve rapidly, our systems are diverse, and our AI engineering challenges are broad. This allows engineers to continuously develop new subject matter expertise while helping the organization innovate with greater agility, technical depth, and customer focus.
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
- Deliver high-quality AI-native prototypes, platforms, and services that can evolve into secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable production solutions.
- Drive long-term design thinking for complex feature areas or subsystems, with simplicity, maintainability, responsible AI, and extensibility as core tenets.
- Convert ambiguous customer and business problems into clear technical hypotheses, rapid experiments, measurable success criteria, and evidence-based engineering decisions.
- Lead architecture, implementation, evaluation, observability, rollout, and risk mitigation for cross-team initiatives, while remaining hands-on in critical code paths.
- Deliver value through solid collaboration across engineering, product management, design, applied science, and Microsoft 365 partner teams across geographies.
- Mentor and develop engineers across levels through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and inclusive team practices.
- Be a role model for an open, honest, inclusive, curious, and learning-oriented approach to problem solving.
Qualifications
Required 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:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience in programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Python, TypeScript, or related languages.
- Experience designing and implementing large-scale cloud services, distributed systems, developer platforms, or cross-application experiences.
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML systems, generative AI applications, agents, retrieval and grounding systems, evaluation pipelines, or model-enabled product experiences.
- Solid technical leadership, cross-group collaboration, written communication, and ability to create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Knowledge of modern engineering practices, including automated deployments, integrated quality gates, secure development, observability, experimentation, and modern version control systems such as Git.
- Experience applying security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI principles to product and platform design.
- Passion for customer-focused innovation, rapid learning, and translating early technical ideas into measurable product outcomes.
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.