Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Noida, Pune

Posted: 14/10/2025

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Job Description

Overview

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end- to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

Within AI Platform, the AI Foundry team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning model. Our AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team is at the forefront of this mission working on groundbreaking projects for customizing of OSS models. We collaborate closely with research institutions, industry leaders, and organizations worldwide to create innovative solutions that impact millions of users.

Qualifications

Qualifications (Required and Preferred)

5+ years of experience writing production code in building internet scale services and distributed systems.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and distributed computing (Kubernetes).
Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g.PyTorch).
Experience with transformer-based and diffuser-based models preferred(e.g. GPT, Llama, Stable diffusion).
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

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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.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will:

Write clean and concise code with unit tests
Collaborate with researchers and data scientists to implement model customization techniques, including Finetuning, Reinforcement Finetuning, Distillation.
Optimize model performance, scalability, and efficiency.
Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance, robustness, and generalization.
Explore novel techniques and approaches to enhance model capabilities

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.