Senior Software Engineer - Responsible AI

Microsoft
San Francisco Bay area / New York City metropolitan area2026-03-18onsite

About the job

The Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Responsible AI who is passionate about building customer-facing AI services with scalable and sustainable architecture and implementation and with high performance, low latency, and high availability.

Responsibilities

Partners with appropriate stakeholders determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios. (e.g. Agentic Security, RAI for Agent, RAI Customization and more)Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions in area of RAI production features.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in RAI product experience.Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.

Preferred

2+ years of experience building infra for AI products at scale.Experience in developing cutting-edge AI products and applications, with an understanding of AI technology and customer requirements.Familiar with secure software design concepts.Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.Ability to collaborate with partner teams, across disciplines and teams, to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner.Ability to generate clarity and direction in ambiguous situations.