Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI Speech Team

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $102,100 - $261,000

About The Position

Microsoft's CoreAI Speech Team is building speech technologies and data foundations for next-generation AI experiences. The team is developing an agentic data processing platform that supports the end-to-end data lifecycle for speech and AI model development, including data acquisition and generation, processing, filtering, quality validation, and preparation.

The Software Engineer will help design, build, and evolve this platform using technologies such as Python, Apache Spark, and Microsoft Azure to process large-scale speech, audio, text, and other machine learning data. The role focuses on making complex data workflows more scalable, reliable, efficient, and automated, at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, speech, and AI.

The position involves contributing to platform architecture and implementation, translating engineering, research, and data needs into scalable capabilities, and collaborating with engineers, applied scientists, researchers, and partner teams. Microsoft describes a culture valuing growth mindset, diverse perspectives, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including Python, C#, C++, or Java, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Solid software engineering skills, including software design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code quality.
• Experience developing production software using Python, C#, or another modern programming language.
• Experience with Apache Spark/PySpark and large-scale data processing.
• Experience with distributed systems, data engineering technologies, or large-scale data processing platforms.
• Programming experience with Python and/or C#/.NET.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-based services, systems, or data platforms, particularly on Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms.
• Experience building production-quality data platforms, data pipelines, or workflow orchestration systems.
• Experience working with speech, audio, text, or machine learning data.
• Experience with AI/ML systems, large language models, agents, or agentic workflows.
• Experience with Databricks or similar distributed data processing platforms.
• Problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to work across software, data, infrastructure, and AI components.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve a large-scale agentic data processing platform for speech and AI model development.
• Develop data processing systems and platform capabilities using Python, Apache Spark/PySpark, and Microsoft Azure.
• Build capabilities for data acquisition and generation, processing, filtering, quality validation, and data preparation across large-scale workflows.
• Design tools, abstractions, and automation that make complex data processing workflows easier to develop, operate, and scale.
• Integrate AI and agentic capabilities into data processing workflows to improve automation and developer productivity.
• Debug and optimize interactions across data processing, distributed compute, AI models, and cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical design and implementation throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, researchers, and partner teams to translate speech and AI data requirements into production-ready platform capabilities.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and collaboration across teams.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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