FULL_TIME

Principal Architect

11/26/2025

Advance a large-scale distributed AI platform to enhance usability, scalability, and reliability. Mentor technical leads and ensure high-quality delivery of complex initiatives.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

About the Role

- Advance large-scale distributed AI platform to improve usability, scalability, reliability, efficiency, and architectural clarity. - Take R&D ideas from concept to production, delivering measurable business impact and better user experiences at scale. - Act as the go-to expert for critical issues, unblock projects, and ensure architectural integrity and long-term sustainability. - Develop and drive metrics frameworks to measure system performance, model quality, and overall platform effectiveness, enabling continuous improvement and data-driven decision making. - Design and evolve agent-based workflows leveraging LLMs and SLMs, enabling reasoning-capable, adaptive, multi-step decision-making systems. - Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence. - Align with partner teams on strategy, roadmaps, and timelines to ensure end-to-end delivery. - Provide technical direction and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience. - Proven experience building and shipping large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure services. - Experience with large-scale data systems, optimizations and distributed system design. - Solid organization, prioritization, and communication skills to drive clarity and alignment across teams. - Track record of delivering high-impact systems within timelines and raising the technical bar for the organization. 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. - Expertise in ML systems design, including training pipelines, offline/online serving, and optimization for cost, latency, and throughput. - Thought leadership in systems or ML architecture.

Key Skills

Distributed SystemsAI PlatformArchitectural IntegrityMetrics FrameworksAgent-Based WorkflowsMentoringTechnical DirectionML Systems DesignTraining PipelinesOptimizationCommunication SkillsOrganizational SkillsProblem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentScalabilityReliability