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Software Engineer 2

2026-04-24

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

Overview Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.The CoreAI organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end AI stack and is core to Azure AI innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from GitHub, to Office, Teams, and Xbox. We are the team building Responsible AI, Azure OpenAI, Model as a Service, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Within CoreAI, the Foundry team empowers builders around the world of all skill level to easily create AI appsThe Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AIgenerated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building customer-facing, high performance, low latency, and high availability AI services.In this role, you will work with a unique group of talented engineers, scientists, and product managers to build the industry-leading Responsible AI services. You will build new AI services and integrate with existing services such as Azure AI Content Safety, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, and more. Responsibilities Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, implement, and deliver well‑scoped software features using clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code in accordance with established engineering standards.</li><li>Contribute to technical design discussions by understanding system components, dependencies, and trade‑offs, and executing approved designs effectively.</li><li>Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the codebase, improving performance, reliability, and service quality through effective use of telemetry and diagnostics.</li><li>Follow secure coding, testing, and compliance practices to ensure solutions meet Microsoft’s security, privacy, and engineering quality standards.</li><li>Continuously learn and improve engineering skills by incorporating feedback, adopting best practices, and contributing positively to team engineering culture.</li></ul> Qualifications Required Qualifications<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>3+ to 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including hands‑on development in one or more modern programming languages but not limited to C#, Java, Python.</li><li>Strong understanding of core software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, object‑oriented design, and scalable system principles.</li><li>Experience developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production‑quality code, following established coding standards and evelopment processes.</li><li>Working knowledge of cloud, distributed systems, or service‑based architectures, with exposure to reliability, performance, and monitoring concepts</li></ul>Preferred qualification:<ul><li>4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with coding in languages such as C#, Python, Reactdemonstrating strong fundamentals and growing depth in building production‑quality software.</li><li>Solid technical judgment and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to design and implement scoped solutions, debug complex issues, refactor code, and improve reliability and performance of services.</li><li>Ability to collaborate effectively and influence peers, navigating team dynamics, participating constructively in design and code reviews, and contributing positively to team engineering culture.</li><li>Demonstrated collaboration and emerging leadership skills, such as mentoring junior engineers, owning well‑defined components or features, and supporting operational excellence when needed.</li><li>Exposure to AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), and core machine‑learning concepts, with interest or early experience applying them to real‑world software engineering problems</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: • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter<ul><li>Ensure reliability and supportability of services, act as DRI when needed, improve telemetry, reduce incident volume, and integrate operational learnings into engineering decisions.</li><li>Understand customer and user requirements deeply, using feedback, data, and telemetry insights to shape features, improve usability, and guide iterative product improvements.</li></ul> 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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Principal Software Engineer

2026-04-24

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

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Principal PM Manager

2026-04-21

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

Fully on-site

Overview <div dir="ltr">Microsoft AI is a customer-first organization building AI powered products in service of our customer’s business goals. We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. As a small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. We run lean, obsess about users, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it. We are seeking a Principal PM Manager to manage a team of model specialists who will design, evaluate, and improve how AI systems interact with tools, APIs, and users across multiple locales. In this role, you will work at the intersection of prompt engineering, policy design, and safety, ensuring that AI-driven workflows are accurate, compliant, and user-friendly. You will use experience and solid critical reasoning to review, refine, and design prompts, evaluation frameworks and guidelines for AI systems. This role also requires solid communication skills and awareness of safety and content quality, especially across a wide range of languages and locales.You will collaboratively work with data scientists, AI researchers, engineers, designers, and product managers to discover issues, define policy, write guidelines, evaluate language, collect data and ultimately improve the models that power quality and safety efforts for Microsoft AI Monetization. We’re looking for someone with an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and curiosity to manage a high performing team. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment.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.Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction. </div> Responsibilities <div dir="ltr" data-wrapper="true"><ul><li>Create, document, and maintain policies and guidelines governing AI interactions, content handling, and tool workflows.</li><li>Document edge cases, decision rationales, and recommendations with clear, concise written communication.</li><li>Design, review, and refine prompts and instructions for AI systems interacting with tools, APIs, and external services.</li><li>Collaborate with product, engineering, and safety teams to iterate on prompts, policies, and workflows.</li><li>Evaluate AI responses for critical reasoning quality, correctness of parameters, and adherence to policies.</li><li>Spin the data flywheel to extract insights from extensive language datasets to uncover issues and opportunities to improve model response quality.</li><li>Support multilingual use cases by validating prompts and responses across multiple locales, with attention to nuance and clarity.</li></ul></div> Qualifications Required Qualifications: <ul><li>Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.<ul><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li>1+ year(s) people management experience.</li><li>8+ years of experience in AI quality, content review, trust and safety program or operation roles.</li><li>Proven ability to lead high performing teams with measurable impact.</li><li>Proven policy interpretation skills: drafting, interpreting, and applying guidelines or policies in an operational setting.</li><li>Hands-on experience with prompt design, context window management, and model evaluation.</li><li>Proven ability to translate complex data engineering and analytics concepts into annotation frameworks, quality standards, and training materials.</li><li>Demonstrated experience with prompt engineering or writing clear, structured instructions for AI or automation systems.</li><li>Solid attention to detail, particularly in checking parameters, arguments, and compliance with specified schemas or policies.</li><li>Solid communication skills, with the ability to write clear, concise rationales and explanations; comfort working with multilingual contexts across many locales.</li><li>Excellent critical reasoning and judgment, especially when evaluating ambiguous or complex cases.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Literature, or related discipline AND 2+ years experience in language or context engineering.</li></ul> #MicrosoftAI 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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