New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 31, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you want to work on the next generation of search to revolutionize the way people discover and access information by harnessing the power of advanced language models and search technologies, ensuring a personalized, reliable, and inclusive search experience for all users? Do you enjoy solving problems, looking at problems through a different lens, and innovating new solutions to complex problems? Then come join us!The Bing Places team is on a mission to empower people and organizations everywhere to explore, navigate, and connect in the physical world. We are responsible for creating experiences and producing high quality data and relevance through the understanding of our users' interests, a thorough understanding of entities and their unique aspects, and bringing these together to provide the best and most valuable experiences for our users. The Bing Places - Data team powers all these experiences with high quality and comprehensive data about places and maps.We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience applying the latest AI/ML technology to web-scale products, for the Bing Places - Data team. You'll have the opportunity to accelerate your learning and career by working on web-scale products, and working with industry leaders, cutting-edge AI techniques and contributing to impactful, customer-centric projects. Our team supports flexible work arrangements, with options for hybrid or remote work, so you can achieve the work-life balance you deserve.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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for a set of scenarios.Participate in design, implementation, and execution across a variety of features across the team to raise the code and architecture quality bar.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends in technical solutions, Stays current on the latest industry innovations in various machine learning (NLP, LLM, SLM), and data mining techniques and finds opportunities to leverage them to solve problems and to optimize existing pipelines.Embody our Culture and Values. | |