Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

Microsoft Corporation • Mountain View, CA • Posted June 29, 2026

About the Role

**Overview**

You will work in a group focusing on advancing Azure Content Understanding, a multimodal AI capability that enables organizations to transform unstructured data—such as text, documents, audio, images, and video—into structured, actionable insights.

As a Principal Engineer on the team, you will work on building end‑to‑end multimodal AI systems that process and extract insights from diverse multi-modality data types. In this role, you will combine strong software engineering with applied ML expertise to design and ship production systems using techniques like context engineering, data generation and rigorous evaluation/metrics to continuously improve quality.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we are dedicated to this mission across every aspect of the company. Our culture us centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Jo...