Member of Technical Staff, LLM Inference · Microsoft AI

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:29:16 GMT
Engineering

Microsoft AI · New York · USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year · onsite

Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff, LLM Inference to join their MAI Superintelligence Team in New York. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI research and development. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI and machine learning markets.

About the Role

Our Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining the tools and systems that enable Microsoft AI researchers to run models easily and efficiently. Our work empowers researchers to run models in RL, synthetic data generation, evals, and more. We are joint stewards of one of the largest compute fleets in the world. The team is responsible for optimizing compute efficiency on our heterogeneous data centers as well as enabling cutting-edge research and production deployment. We are an applied research team that is embedded directly in Microsoft AI’s research org to work as closely as possible with researchers. We are vertically integrated, owning everything from kernels to architecture co-design to distributed systems to profiling and testing tools.

Accountabilities

Work alongside researchers and engineers to implement frontier AI research ideas.

Introduce new systems, tools, and techniques to improve model inference performance.

Build tools to help debug performance bottlenecks, numeric instabilities, and distributed systems issues.

Build tools and establish processes to enhance the team’s collective productivity.

The Candidate we're looking for

Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Technical skills:

Experience with generative AI.

Experience with distributed computing.

Python and Python ecosystem (eg. uv, pybind/nanobind, FastAPI) expertise.

Personal attributes:

Results-oriented, have a bias toward action, and enjoy owning problems end-to-end.

Embody our Culture and Values.

Benefits

Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay