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About the Role
In Microsoft Frontier Company, you will deliver real outcomes for complex organizations by embedding directly within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges and ship production-ready solutions. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will bring strong software design and engineering expertise, building reliable systems and production-ready services that turn ideas and data-driven insights into scalable solutions. You’ll work in small, multidisciplinary crews, owning the full lifecycle from design through to deployed solutions, powered by AI.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship solutions that meet enterprise security standards from design through production.
- Partner with stakeholders to define problem statements, success metrics, and architectural approaches.
- Own end-to-end system design for cloud and AI workloads, making sound tradeoffs.
- Use modern engineering practices to iterate fast and reduce operational risk.
- Work directly with customer engineering teams to deliver production-ready solutions and ensure adoption.
- Create solution accelerators, reference architectures, and code for reuse across customers.
- Continuously learn and adapt to evolving technologies and customer priorities.
- Provide technical direction, coach engineers, and collaborate with partners to deliver as one team.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams, manage dependencies, and ensure operational excellence for production services.
- Create an environment of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement while representing the company professionally.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Master's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions.
- Familiarity with deploying and operating AI systems in production environments.
- Understanding of model evaluation, data quality, and performance monitoring.
- Experience using cloud AI platforms (Azure ML, OpenAI, or similar).
- Comfortable with travel up to 25%.
Skills
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- AI
- LLM
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Approaches
- Model Tuning
- Model Evaluation
- Data Quality
- Performance Monitoring
- Cloud AI Platforms
- Azure ML
- OpenAI
- CI/CD
- Automated Testing
- Observability
- Progressive Delivery
Location
- United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full-time
- Contract
Experience Level
- Principal
- IC5
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- £ 93,500.00 - £ 161,800.00 per year
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
- Microsoft builds on values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 requesting accommodations.