Multidisciplinary Manager (Software Engineering) - FDE

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $142,800 - $331,200

About The Position

The Multidisciplinary Manager leads a cross-discipline engineering team in Microsoft’s Frontier Company Engineering organization, using a portfolio mindset to deliver high-impact outcomes for complex customer organizations. Working alongside engineers, data scientists, product managers, and domain experts, the manager owns delivery across the full lifecycle, from problem definition through production deployment. The role combines team leadership and talent development with selected hands-on customer engagements, and promotes engineering excellence, inclusive collaboration, operational strength, and a multidisciplinary operating model. Teams use AI throughout the development lifecycle to deliver solutions rapidly while maintaining security, quality, and trust.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the job duties.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; or a bachelor’s degree in a related field and 15+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of people management experience.
• 3+ years of customer-facing project delivery, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
• Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and cloud AI platforms.
• Enjoy travel and be comfortable traveling up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and own a portfolio of work to maximize customer and Microsoft value through strong portfolio and delivery leadership.
• Coach engineers across software engineering, technical program management, and data science; support their career development and performance in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Serve as a player-coach on selected engagements, modeling engineering fundamentals, customer-focused execution, and inclusive cross-discipline collaboration.
• Partner with leadership and discipline managers to maintain healthy team rhythms and operational excellence across engagements.
• Promote continuous learning by elevating engineering practices, sharing reusable patterns and accelerators, and strengthening the multidisciplinary operating model.
• Champion AI-forward hypervelocity engineering by guiding teams in responsible AI practices, use of accelerators and reusable patterns, and integration of emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions and delivery.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available at the linked Microsoft careers page.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager