Job Description

Responsibilities

As an experienced Software Engineer on our team, you'll be responsible for and will engage in:

Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.
Building large-scale high-performant search and question-answering systems on billions~trillions of data.
Working with big data by training, extending and shipping the capability of deep learning models to provide compelling experiences across our products.

As a fast growing team with a wide breadth of opportunities, projects are assigned based on your particular interests, experiences, skillset and background. These projects can span across areas such as: large scale data pipelines, data engineering, system optimization, modeling, debugging/monitoring tools, and shipment of cutting-edge technology for 100s of millions of users.

Qualifications

Required:

A Bachelors degree or advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other related technical areas (including mathematics and physics)
6+ years of experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python
3+ years industry experience with one or more of the following: Machine Learning fundamentals, Distributed Systems, Information Retrieval and/or Data Mining

These are other experiences and qualifications that may help a person succeed in this role, but are not required:

Strong ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release and service operation)
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including coding, problem solving and data analysis skills.
Ability to effectively work in collaborative, multi-project team environment and ship production features in a fast-paced environment.
Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
Customer/End-result/Metrics driven in design and development.
Keen ability and motivation to learn, enter new domains, and manage through ambiguity.
Passionate and self-motivated

Valid through: 3/3/2021

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. ,Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.

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