Software Engineer - FDE

Summary

Microsoft's Frontier Company Engineering team embeds engineers with customer teams to solve complex challenges and deliver production-ready solutions. The Software Engineer will design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable software and AI-enabled services while collaborating with customers, data scientists, product managers, and domain experts.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production software: Design, implement, test, and maintain services, applications, and tools using modern engineering practices (code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
• Security and privacy by design: Follow Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance requirements; apply secure coding practices, threat modeling, and vulnerability management
• Responsible AI engineering: When building AI-enabled features, apply responsible AI principles, evaluate model and data risks, and implement appropriate safeguards and monitoring
• Customer co-engineering: Work with customer stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into technical designs, and deliver solutions that meet agreed success metrics
• Collaborate across disciplines: Partner with PM, design, data science, and domain experts to make informed tradeoffs, document decisions, and drive alignment as One Microsoft
• Operate what you build: Participate in on-call/incident response as required, diagnose issues, and improve reliability through root-cause analysis and preventative fixes
• Contribute to reusable assets: Create and maintain reusable components, reference implementations, and documentation to accelerate delivery across engagements
• Continuous improvement: Learn, experiment, and share best practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and customer outcomes
• Model Microsoft culture and values: Work inclusively, communicate clearly, and act with integrity

Skills

• * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• * Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties
• * Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• * Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end
• * Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and use of cloud AI platforms
• * Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• * Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties

Nice to Haves

• * Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• * Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end
• * Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and use of cloud AI platforms
• * Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%