Principal Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph (CoreAI)

Microsoft CoreAI's mission is to empower every developer to shape the future with Artificial Intelligence (AI). CoreAI is developing a new AI-first app stack, aligning infrastructure, platforms, and tools to support this mission. The AI Knowledge team within Azure Foundry builds the knowledge understanding and retrieval systems for the Microsoft platform.

As a Principal Software Engineer in the CoreAI team, you will be working on cutting-edge knowledge graph and semantic technologies. The role involves building cloud-scale systems that handle complex information retrieval and knowledge representation challenges. You'll be part of a team that covers internet-scale vector and hybrid search, state-of-the-art transformer-based ranking models, unstructured content understanding, and structure extraction.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI knowledge systems at Microsoft. You'll be working on exploration efforts that push the boundaries of performance for knowledge retrieval. The role requires someone who can combine deep technical expertise with business acumen, while being a productive coder and team player.

The position offers competitive compensation with a base pay range of $161,600 - $286,200 per year (higher in SF Bay Area and NYC), along with comprehensive benefits including healthcare, educational resources, savings and investments, parental leave, and more. You'll be working in a hybrid environment with up to 100% work from home flexibility and minimal travel requirements (0-25%).

Join Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, while working with a team that values growth mindset, innovation, and collaboration.