Microsoft
Principal AI Engineer
Found: January 17, 2026
This role is based in Redmond, Washington.
Compensation:
USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and agentic systems for real-world applications.
- Own and drive end-to-end model training, including data pipeline design, distributed training optimization, and performance evaluation.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in large language models (LLM), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, search, and AI research.
- Collaborate closely with applied scientists and other engineering teams to productionize models, build scalable, robust pipelines, and provide support for in-production AI models and agents.
- Conduct applied science experiments, create and validate metrics, develop machine learning pipelines and modeling algorithms in areas including LLMs, NLP, and Information Retrieval.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Proficiency with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or scikit-learn.
- 3+ years of experience in coding and design, specifically in the development of AI models and agents for scaled production services.