Principal Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI

Responsibilities

• Build and scale foundational services that power secure agent deployment and execution, governed tool integration, training/fine-tuning, and observability/evaluation
• Design and evolve distributed runtimes and cloud services to run agents securely at enterprise scale with strong reliability, security, and compliance guarantees
• Improve iteration loops for researchers, engineers, and developers through better tooling, abstractions, and automation across fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization
• Debug and optimize complex interactions across models, data, hardware, and infrastructure
• Drive technical direction across the full software development lifecycle, influencing design tradeoffs and long-term architecture
• Champion operational excellence, secure-by-design practices, and responsible AI at scale
• Collaborate closely with partner teams across CoreAI and Azure to deliver seamless, production-ready platforms
• As a senior technical voice, raise the engineering bar through strong design principles, rigorous reviews, mentorship, and influence across teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python or equivalent experience
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ 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 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience