Microsoft
Principal ML Engineer, CoreAI
Found: February 17, 2026
This position is based in Redmond, Washington, requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in-office.
Compensation:
USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate production-grade generative AI and multimodal systems.
- Lead technical design for core GenAI capabilities and make data-driven tradeoffs.
- Define and improve model and system quality using evaluation frameworks.
- Collaborate with security, privacy, and compliance partners.
- Provide technical leadership across teams and mentor engineers.
- Partner with product and customers to translate requirements into well-designed APIs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field preferred.
- Experience with prompt engineering and building generative AI systems.
- Familiarity with compliance and security standards in enterprise AI solutions.
- Track record of delivering enterprise-facing AI products at scale.