Principal Software Engineer

3 days ago


Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Full time $120,000 - $200,000 per year
Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world.  The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for Copilot Studio, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.


We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join Copilot Studio's AI Orchestration team, which is responsible for leveraging and optimizing generative AI models to perform actions, make decisions, create responses, and more within an agent. Our orchestration capabilities power millions of both conversational and autonomous agents every day as part of the Copilot Studio service, and allows agents to integrate with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, IVR/voice products, power agents on the web, and much more. With the rapid pace of AI innovation, our team is uniquely positioned within Microsoft and the industry to analyze, experiment with, and productize new AI capabilities.


As a Principal Software Engineer, your role will be to provide technical leadership for a wide variety of AI workstreams, build features with high quality and maintainability alongside teams of other engineers, operate our AI services, and coach engineers on the team. You will work across Microsoft to help teams build agents, and you will work with customers to determine how Copilot Studio and agents fit into their AI strategies.


Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.



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