Senior Software Engineer, Foundry Agents CoreAI

Microsoft Foundry is building the foundational platforms that power the next generation of intelligent agents and generative AI systems. Within CoreAI the Foundry Agents organization is responsible for key ownership areas across the endtoend agent lifecycle: (a) Foundry Agents platform to deploy and run agents securely at enterprise scale with seamless integration with governed tools (b) model finetuning to train and improve agentic performance and (c) Foundry observability to generate insights from agentic traces and continuously evaluate and optimize agents.

As a Senior Software Engineer within Foundry Agents you will build and evolve largescale cloudnative systems that span the full lifecycle of advanced agentic applications from secure enterprise deployment and governed tool integration to finetuning and training workflows to observability evaluation and optimization in production. Your work will directly contribute to how developers and enterprises build reliable autonomous and highimpact AI agents.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems AI infrastructure and developer platforms contributing to the design and implementation of systems that must meet high standards of performance reliability security and compliance. This role requires strong technical skills solid systems thinking and the ability to translate product engineering and research needs into scalable platform capabilities.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We bring that mission to life through a culture that values growth mindset diverse perspectives and continuous learning. Join us and help shape the future of AIpowered software.

Across the organization you will:

• Build and scale services that support secure agent deployment and execution governed tool integration training/finetuning and observability/evaluation
• Design and implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents reliably at enterprise scale
• Improve developer and researcher workflows through better tooling abstractions and automation across finetuning evaluation and optimization
• Debug and optimize interactions across models data and infrastructure
• Contribute to technical design and implementation across the software development lifecycle
• Maintain high standards for code quality testing reliability and operational excellence
• Collaborate closely with partner teams across CoreAI and Azure to deliver productionready platform capabilities

You will contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful design discussions code reviews and collaboration across teams. Youll have the opportunity to grow your technical scope while helping to build the platforms that enable intelligent agent systems at scale.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160200 - $261000 per year.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.

Required Experience:

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