Overview

Are you an engineer who loves pairing strong product instincts with AI, machine learning, and bringing meaningful UX interactions to life with craft and precision? This role works in a people-centric, culture-first environment alongside designers, product partners, engineers, strategists, and writers to design and build modern experiences that make intelligent systems feel clear, trustworthy, and human.

We’re a forward-looking team passionate about building innovative technology and shipping delightful experiences—especially where AI changes what products can do. We invest in rapid prototyping, model tuning and evaluation, data experiments, and AI-related explorations to help explore the future of intelligent Microsoft products. Our team brings diverse backgrounds in multiple disciplines, from engineering, design, or research to behavioral sciences or medicine; we come in all shapes and sizes. We love pushing boundaries and helping evolve Microsoft’s products. Our current focus is on Copilot in the M365 Enterprise world.

If you’re looking for a change and wanting to make an impact – we invite you to join us in our mission and vision to build the future of UX for Microsoft.

About you

You’re a self-driven UX engineer who cares about bringing thoughtful product design to life in this new age of AI. You can turn ideas into interactive experiences, learn new tools quickly, and are comfortable exploring the unknown. You value strong engineering practices and know how to collaborate across design and product.

You contribute openly, prototype or experiment to learn, share feedback generously, and help raise the quality of the team’s work. You are curious, adaptable, and motivated to build experiences that make a real impact.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and run applied science and/or machine learning experiments to explore new ideas and validate hypotheses
• Conduct research on state-of-the-art technologies, methodologies, and emerging trends
• Translate concepts into working prototypes through code
• Provide thoughtful, constructive feedback and propose creative, practical solutions
• Communicate insights, decisions, and results clearly and concisely to cross-functional partners
• Contribute to publications, technical reports, and knowledge-sharing initiatives

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years engineering development skills, OR significant industry experience uniquely qualifying you for this role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human‑Computer Interaction, Design, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field OR equivalent industry experience uniquely qualifying you for this role.
• Mastery of at least one coding language.
• GitHub, CodePen, or other links showcasing coding skills OR portfolio is required.
• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine‑tuning, or domain adaptation techniques for large or small language models.
• Experience applying machine learning techniques to UX challenges such as personalization, behavioral modeling, or interaction optimization.
• Experience working with foundation models in applied product environments, or with structured or unstructured data to generate UX‑relevant insights that translate into actionable product outcomes
• Experience developing user study plans, generating hypotheses, or using state‑of‑the‑art methods to understand human behavior in product environments.
• Experience with human-computer interaction, behavioral psychology, and/or trust in intelligent systems.
• Experience building or evaluating agentic systems or multimodal AI‑driven user experiences.

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UX Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.