Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsHyderabadOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 50–85 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Design and deliver LLM-powered capabilities, managing context and prioritizing reliability and measurable customer value.
- Build grounded RAG solutions using technologies such as Azure Cosmos DB and semantic search.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic development practices to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience. The JD also lists Master’s degree plus 8+ years or Bachelor’s degree plus 12+ years as qualification pathways.
- Must pass Microsoft’s Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Senior software engineer with substantial hands-on coding experience, suited to owning AI capabilities from design through delivery.
- Experience with semantic search is a preferred shortlist signal; the work is focused on RAG and grounded responses.
- Likely fit for engineers who can balance LLM context handling, reliability, and customer value while applying AI-assisted or agentic development practices.