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Principal Software Engineer

2025-12-05

United States, Washington, Redmond +2 more

0 days / week in-office – remote

Overview Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users that impact their daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast-cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore AI/ML frameworks team with ambitious goals to advance AI technology? The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes the cutting edge of performance and experience in machine learning in production and research. We bridge the gap between the latest state-of-the-art AI models and hardware eco-systems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world’s fastest super cloud computers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, IoT devices, and internet browsers. The framework we develop is powering AI experience for all major Microsoft products, such as Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, Bing, SQL Server, VSCode, Cognitive Service, Copilot+ PC, and many others. As the Principal Software Engineer on our team, you would have the opportunity to work on:<ul><li>ONNX: an open standard format for representing AI models, enabling AI developers to work on AI models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.</li><li>ONNX Runtime: ONNX based cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator.</li><li>Foundry Local: an on-device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API.</li></ul> We value our team members’ happiness and encourage everyone to constantly learn new things and take risks. We collaborate closely and openly to accomplish big things together while having fun. 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 As a Principal Software Engineer on the team the common tasks of the job would include, but not be limited to<ul><li>Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios. </li><li>Providing technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. </li><li>Leading by example and mentoring others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company. </li><li>Leveraging deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items. </li><li>Holding accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. </li><li>Proactively seeking new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.</li><li>Embodying our <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fabout%2Fcorporate-values&data=05%7C02%7CGeorge.Wu%40microsoft.com%7C8c87d993228140db84b408dd0360224e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638670433615711521%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7p1WKLs2spOJw3CSmWqNyP8SZxH8d2xfkSeojz9TuVs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Culture </a>and <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcareers.microsoft.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Fculture&data=05%7C02%7CGeorge.Wu%40microsoft.com%7C8c87d993228140db84b408dd0360224e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638670433615735255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YXJWg02JsDXcFReZV4IA0HWCBOFAWcmBZYKw6mVCLTA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Values</a></li></ul> Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications<div><ul><li>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.</li></ul></div><div>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: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul></div><div>Additional or preferred qualifications<div><ul><li>Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.</li><li>Experience developing Inference software stack.</li><li>Experience working on systems performance optimization.</li><li>Working with Open-Source code.</li></ul></div></div> Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay'>https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Senior Software Engineer

2025-12-05

United States, Washington, Redmond +2 more

0 days / week in-office – remote

Overview Are you looking for opportunities to deliver innovations to hundreds of millions of users that impact their daily life? Do you want to be part of a fast-cycle, highly competitive, and hardcore artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) frameworks team with ambitious goals to advance AI technology?   The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops software that pushes the cutting edge of performance and experience in machine learning in production and research. We bridge the gap between the latest state-of-the-art AI models and hardware eco-systems. We build software to enable running AI models everywhere, from the world’s fastest super cloud computers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, internet of things (IoT) devices, and internet browsers.  The framework we develop is powering AI experience for all major Microsoft products, such as Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, Bing, SQL Server, VSCode, Cognitive Service, Copilot+ PC, and many others. As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you would have the opportunity to work on: <ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="37" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">ONNX: an open standard format for representing AI models, enabling AI developers to work on AI models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers. </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="37" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">ONNX Runtime: ONNX based cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator. </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="37" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Foundry Local: an on-device AI inference solution offering performance, privacy, customization, and cost advantages. It integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and applications through an intuitive CLI, SDK, and REST API. </li></ul> We value our team members’ happiness and encourage everyone to constantly learn new things and take risks. We collaborate closely and openly to accomplish big things together while having fun.   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 As a Senior Software Engineer on the team the common tasks of the job would include, but not be limited to <ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="38" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Design, implement, and test a function or component for our AI/ML frameworks and tools </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="38" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Speeding up/reducing complexity of key components/pipelines to improve performance and/or efficiency of our systems </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="38" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Interacting and collaborating with our partners both internal and external </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="38" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Interacting with and providing tech support for our customers/users </li></ul><ul><li data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="38" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Embody our <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fabout%2Fcorporate-values&data=05%7C02%7CGeorge.Wu%40microsoft.com%7C8c87d993228140db84b408dd0360224e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638670433615711521%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7p1WKLs2spOJw3CSmWqNyP8SZxH8d2xfkSeojz9TuVs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Culture </a>and <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcareers.microsoft.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Fculture&data=05%7C02%7CGeorge.Wu%40microsoft.com%7C8c87d993228140db84b408dd0360224e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638670433615735255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YXJWg02JsDXcFReZV4IA0HWCBOFAWcmBZYKw6mVCLTA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Values</a> </li></ul> Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications<div><ul><li>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.</li></ul></div><div>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: <ul><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul></div><div>Additional or preferred qualifications<div><ul><li>Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.</li><li>4+ years of experience in AI frameworks, large scale distributed computation, system programming, compiler or machine learning. 4+ years of experience successfully collaborating with cross functional teams, owning deliverables and driving results to meet business objectives. </li><li>Experience working on systems performance optimization.</li><li>Working with Open-Source code.</li><li>Experience developing Inference software stack.</li></ul></div></div> Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay'>https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Senior Software Engineer

2025-12-05

United States, Washington, Redmond

3 days / week in-office

Overview Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure CXP team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work. We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management, support, and enablement. We analyze and amplify those customer voices, both within our own team, and across the Cloud + AI team, bringing the customer connection to the Quality vision for Azure. We innovate ways to scale what we learn across our customer base. Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals. Azure Reliability team is a multidisciplinary engineering organization part of CXP dedicated to making, “Azure the safest and most reliable Cloud”. Azure Reliability teams strive to improve reliability fundamentals via software engineering operational improvement, preferring long-lasting platform improvements delivered as engineering projects over repetitive manual operations. We contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, and prefer reuse over re-invention, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products. We are not looking for people who know it all, we are looking for people who want to learn it all. We value the input of people who aren’t afraid to learn all the time and embrace mistakes as they continuously improve both our services and <a name="_Int_RKDKBA12"></a>themselves. If you are excited by this type of challenge and you love to work in groups of people who are similarly excited: come join us! Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed. This role supports flexible work from home with occasional in-office meetings. 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 <ul style="margin-bottom: 0.0in; margin-top: 0.0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products. </li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrate end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.</li><li style="margin: 0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents.</li></ul> Qualifications Required Qualifications:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3+ years of experience in designing and building scalable distributed full stack systems and cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a hands on coding experience.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3+ years of experience working in agile, fast-paced environments, navigating ambiguity and facilitating impactful outcomes.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3+ years of experience with modern frameworks and tools for APIs, microservices, and front-end development. </li></ul>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:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul>Preferred qualifications:<ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. </li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5+ years leading or contributing to cross-functional engineering projects, with strong communication and collaboration skills across teams and stakeholders.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2+ years of applied AI/ML experience, such as building models, leveraging AI services, or applying automation.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of modern database systems (SQL, NoSQL, caching, streaming).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated ability to handle ambiguity, drive clarity, and prioritize effectively.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ability to independently drive projects from concept to delivery.</li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.</li></ul>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.#MSCareerEvents25 #SHPE2025#AfroTech2025 Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href='https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay'>https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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