Microsoft's People and Work Intelligence (PWI) team aims to transform organizational productivity by inferring skills and tasks from collaboration signals and constructing knowledge graphs. This role will contribute to building foundational intelligence capabilities that power Microsoft 365 and Copilot.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data integration, and API development
- Hands-on experience using any cloud platform (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) in a professional or academic project
- Experience monitoring and maintaining production systems, including on-call responsibilities
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable distributed systems
- Experience working with graph databases, knowledge graphs, or semantic data models
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Stay current with emerging technologies and apply them to improve system reliability, efficiency, and observability
Responsibilities
- design and develop advanced inferencing systems and graph-based architectures that power dynamic skill profiles, personalized task recommendations, and organizational knowledge graphs across Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Viva.
- apply large language models (LLMs) for contextual filtering and semantic enrichment
- build scalable graph indexing libraries that support agentic experiences
- design and implement scalable distributed systems
- Experience working with graph databases, knowledge graphs, or semantic data models
- Develop and maintain clean, reusable code for services and features, leveraging best practices in software engineering
- Lead the implementation of new capabilities from concept through deployment, ensuring quality and performance
Other
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, and other engineers
- Commitment to inclusive collaboration, continuous learning, and mentoring others
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Experience contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term platform strategy
