New

Software Engineering IC4

Microsoft
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
Feb 04, 2026
Overview OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) power the world's most impactful intranets, collaboration experiences, business workflows, and content ecosystems. As AI becomes deeply embedded across these surfaces-from search, Q&A, and summarization to powerful synchronous and autonomous agents-our ability to measure quality, reliability, and safety at scale becomes a strategic advantage. Evaluation, both offline and online, is now the way we build and ship AI. As a Senior Software Engineer for the Eval Tooling team, you will help shape and deliver the systems for validating, measuring, and improving AI quality across ODSP Experiences. Your mission starts with elevating developer productivity and enabling fast, confident iteration across a broad and rapidly expanding set of AI workloads: RAG, agents, content generation, semantic search, content understanding, and ODSP's emerging agents that orchestrate multistep actions across files, lists, and sites. You will also partner with Applied Science and Customer Success teams to scale customer data sets. You will partner closely with evaluation platform and tooling efforts across M365 to both leverage shared capabilities and contribute back to the broader ecosystem-we are One Microsoft. This is a handson technical and strategic role where you will define how ODSP Experiences builds trust in AI and ships AI safely, quickly, and confidently. 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. Responsibilities Build and evolve evaluation frameworks and tools for AI scenarios across ODSP Experiences. Design and implement tooling and systems for offline and online evaluation, including scenariobased frameworks, dataset pipelines, LLM autoraters, metrics, and dashboards. Collaborate with ODSP Core Eval Platform and M365wide tooling teams to leverage shared infrastructure. Enable model agility and safe shipping through automated quality gates, regression detection, telemetry instrumentation, and reliable online metrics. Collaborate deeply with AI feature teams across ODSP Experiences to embed evaluation into development workflows. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience in full stack software engineering (React, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, REST, Azure). 2+ years of experience on engineering tooling or evals would be a plus. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: Solid architectural skills in building scalable, distributed systems and cloud services. Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts and practical experience applying AI to real-world product scenarios highly preferred. Track record of rapid iteration, experimentation, and continuous learning. Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-team partnership skills. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 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 This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.