About the job
As a Senior Software Engineer within Foundry Agents, you will build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems that span the full lifecycle of advanced agentic applications — from secure enterprise deployment and governed tool integration, to fine-tuning and training workflows, to observability, evaluation, and optimization in production. Your work will directly contribute to how developers and enterprises build reliable, autonomous, and high-impact AI agents.
Responsibilities
Build and scale services that support secure agent deployment and execution, governed tool integration, training/fine-tuning, 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 fine-tuning, 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 production-ready platform capabilities
You will contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, and collaboration across teams. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your technical scope while helping to build the platforms that enable intelligent agent systems at scale.
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 Python
OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: 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
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
5+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems