Forward Deployed Engineer

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In short

Microsoft Frontier Co. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to co-design, build, and deploy AI-powered platforms and production-grade solutions with customers. This role involves working directly with clients to understand challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes using modern engineering and AI practices.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with customers and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define success criteria, and translate needs into technical solutions.
Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable production-grade software systems and services that apply AI and data capabilities where appropriate.
Rapidly move from concept to prototype to production, iterating alongside customers to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Build production-quality software that connects customer systems, data, and AI capabilities into reliable end-to-end solutions.
Apply engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and security-first development.
Drive end-to-end ownership of customer solutions, monitoring performance, reliability, quality, and maintainability, and continuously improving deployed systems after release.
Collaborate across engineering, data science, product management, design, and customer teams to solve complex technical problems.
Contribute reusable components, reference implementations, and best practices that can be leveraged across customer engagements.
Share insights and learnings from customer deployments to help improve Microsoft products, platforms, and engineering practices.
Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement while contributing to the growth of the broader FDE community.
Embody our culture and values.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Master's Degree (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Equivalent experience.
Experience through coursework, projects, internships, or employment building software, data, cloud, or AI-enabled solutions.
Interest in working directly with customers and supporting solutions from early concept through deployment and ongoing improvement.
Familiarity with AI or machine learning concepts, cloud platforms, data pipelines, application development, or deploying technical solutions.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, learn in ambiguous environments, and communicate clearly.

Benefits

Base pay range: USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year (U.S.)
Higher base pay range in San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area: USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Skills

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonCI/CDAIMachine Learning

#AI#Software Engineering#Frontier Company#Customer Outcomes#Production-grade Solutions#Cloud Platforms#Data Pipelines

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