New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Bing GenAI team is the leading Applied Generative AI team at Microsoft responsible for delivering the highest-quality search experience to over hundreds of millions monthly active users around the world in Microsoft's search engine. We take pride in being the first in the world to solve many Generative AI at Scale challenges. Bing is part of the Microsoft AI (MAI) organization which also includes Copilot, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. MAI is an exciting place to be, and we enjoy strong executive support for performance work.As a Principal Software Engineer in the Bing QnA, Generative Search, and Deep Search team, you will be driving many of the core projects and platforms to support Bing GenAI's experiences. Your emphasis will be on the technical architecture, backend, and front-end (browser client side) code, where you will utilize and grow your skills using state-of-the-art tools and techniques. This opportunity will allow you to stay current with industry trends in LLMs, prompt engineering, distributed computing, web technologies, build Generative AI experiences, and innovate at the forefront of search. Our team culture values technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration, and we foster a supportive, inclusive, and productive work environment to provide growth avenues for each team member. 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.
ResponsibilitiesProvides technical leadership related to building large language model-driven Generative Search projects, and prototype, develop and ship these projects.Partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Holds 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.Proactively seeks 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. | |