Senior Software Engineer(MAI Platform)

The MAI Platform team is tasked with constructing one of the world's largest distributed systems to enhance Bing search and foster advancements in relevance through advanced deep learning techniques. Deep Learning Service team works on several services to support the whole MAI team to experiment and serve the new DL techniques. The team owners Vector search service, mode inference service, Mode optimization service, etc. This open role will work on the Inference service.

Responsibilities

Understand User Requirements
Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., relevance customers teams, project manager, other team members, and all other service owners) to determine user requirements for each scenario on the service gaps based on their scenarios.
Design, coding and implementation
Takes part in the discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects.
Independently creates a clear plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Reviews the code from other team members to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards.
Scenario onboarding and online supporting
Collaborates closely with scenario owners to facilitate their onboarding process and offers essential support to ensure their business success.
Delivers efficient toolsets designed to enhance the platform's usability, debugging capabilities, and monitoring functionalities.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related fields.
• 3+ years' experience in designing, developing and maintaining distributed computing platforms. Experience in writing high quality code and conducting code reviews.
• Nice to have the experiences in Bing search or other search engine platform services, or other large scale platform services.
• Nice to have knowledge for deep learning techniques and frameworks and experiences in LLM prompt engineering.
• Nice to have knowledge for Kubernetes, Linux, C++/C#.

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