About the job
Microsoft AI Search Places is the center of excellence for understanding and using location and geospatial knowledge for 1st and 3rd party scenarios. Our location services are used broadly by major Microsoft products such as Bing, Copilot, Ads, Office, Windows, Teams, and we power the Azure Maps APIs offered to 3rd party developers. The Search Places team uses geospatial knowledge and advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies to bring high quality Location Search capabilities for people and businesses around the world.
Responsibilities
Designs and builds scalable, backend-focused software services and distributed systems that improve service reliability, performance, security, and efficiency, supporting high-volume geospatial and location-based workloads in production.
Applies engineering techniques and machine learning solutions to solve complex geospatial suggestion and location search problems in production.
Works on core technology and engineering stack to deliver features to ensure premium service quality internationally.
Experiments with new technologies such as LLMs to improve quality and efficiency of the system.
Designs and builds software functionalities to improve service reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc.
Collaborates with partner teams to understand their geospatial services requirements, develop high quality services & solutions to deliver value to our customers.
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages C# & .NET OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years work experience with coding in languages in C# & .NET OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years work experience with coding in languages including C# & .NET OR equivalent experience.
Capable of designing and implementing scalable production quality services and automated solutions to process large scale data
Solid collaborative and interpersonal communication skills.
Maps/Geospatial experience.
Understanding of Azure or other cloud services/functions.
Leveraging Agentic Productivity Tools for tasks.
Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries and experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence projects.