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      <Title>Member of Technical Staff, Senior Applied AI Engineer</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to join a fast-moving, high-ownership team building next-generation AI assistant and productivity capabilities. This role blends LLM product engineering, evaluation science, hillclimbing, and internal tool building with the pace and creativity of a startup.</p>
<p>You&#39;ll work across the entire lifecycle of features from early prototypes to production-grade systems and help define how millions of users interact with AI.</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<p>LLM Feature &amp; Agent Development</p>
<p>Design and ship LLM-powered assistant features, including conversational flows, agentic behaviors, retrieval pipelines, and multimodal interactions.</p>
<p>Build prompt architectures, system instructions, and orchestration logic that ensure reliability, grounding, and personality consistency.</p>
<p>Prototype new capabilities rapidly and iterate based on user signals and evaluation data.</p>
<p>Evaluation, Hillclimbing &amp; Quality Systems</p>
<p>Build and maintain evaluation frameworks for correctness, safety, grounding, and UX quality.</p>
<p>Run hillclimbing loops across prompts, models, and tool-use strategies to continuously improve assistant performance.</p>
<p>Analyse failure modes, design mitigations, and drive systematic improvements across the stack.</p>
<p>LLM Tooling &amp; Internal Infrastructure</p>
<p>Develop internal tools for prompt experimentation, model comparison telemetry, and debugging automated eval pipelines.</p>
<p>Create reusable frameworks that accelerate the entire AI org&#39;s ability to ship high-quality assistant features.</p>
<p>Applied ML &amp; Product Integration</p>
<p>Integrate LLMs with product surfaces, APIs, and backend systems.</p>
<p>Build lightweight ML components (ranking, classification, summarization, personalization) that enhance assistant intelligence.</p>
<p>Collaborate with PM, design, and research to turn ambiguous ideas into polished user experiences.</p>
<p>High-Velocity Teamwork</p>
<p>Operate with startup-founder energy: bias for action, rapid iteration, and comfort with ambiguity.</p>
<p>Work closely with researchers, engineers, and product leaders in a fast-moving AI team where ideas ship quickly and impact is immediate.</p>
<p>Contribute to a culture of experimentation, clarity, and high-quality execution.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p>
<p>Required/minimum qualifications</p>
<p>Bachelor&#39;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.</p>
<p>Preferred Qualifications</p>
<p>Master&#39;s Degree AND 3+ years of experience in engineering, problem solving, model building, evaluation, data analysis OR equivalent experience.</p>
<p>2+ years shipping production-level code, models, or data analysis.</p>
<p>1+ years using AI-assisted coding and analysis techniques.</p>
<p>Experience working on small teams and mid-stage startup environments.</p>
<p>Experience working on AI products.</p>
<p>PhD in engineering, applied math, statistics, or related analytical field.</p>
<p>4+ years shipping production-level code, models, or data analysis.</p>
<p>Deep experience building from zero-to-one.</p>
<p>Hands on work hillclimbing AI evaluations.</p>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$119,800 – $234,700 per year</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, LLM product engineering, evaluation science, hillclimbing, internal tool building, Master&apos;s Degree, 3+ years of experience in engineering, problem solving, model building, evaluation, data analysis, AI-assisted coding and analysis techniques, small teams and mid-stage startup environments, AI products, PhD in engineering, applied math, statistics, related analytical field</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Microsoft</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/microsoft.ai.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Microsoft is a multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and devices.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://microsoft.ai</Employerwebsite>
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      <Applyto>https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-senior-applied-ai-engineer-2/</Applyto>
      <Location>Redmond</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-03-08</Postedate>
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