Senior AI + Windows Engineer (Windows)

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot India team is looking for a few high calibre and highly motivated Software Engineers to lead the design, implementation, and shipping of a few critical components for the strategic Microsoft 365 Copilot App on Windows.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the flagship commercial copilot, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot India team is building a set of next generation of AI powered experiences for Microsoft 365 on all platforms (web, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS). Here your work has the potential to reach billions of users worldwide and to impact Microsoft business and its stakeholders. Microsoft 365 Copilot already has more than 100 million MAU and is steadily growing.

The Senior AI + Windows Engineer will be expected to implement features in a way it confirms to overall architecture of the area. They are expected to write automation, create test plan and come up with estimates based on the tasks. They are expected to quickly learn new areas and to adhere to quality and coding/design practices of the team. They must be self-driven, proactive, results-oriented and have the commitment to continue to improve with feedback. Exposure to agile methodology and all phases of the development cycle, preferably on large-scale commercial products is desirable.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in coding in C / C++
• Experience in coding on Windows platform is desirable.
• Solid customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer.
• Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration.
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.