Overview
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.
In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team, we are looking for engineers with a passion for building software that drives customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will own, design, and ship the AI and software systems that resolve highly complex customer technical problems at fleet scale. This opportunity will accelerate your career growth, sharpen your system-design, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills, and deepen your technical proficiency across applied AI, distributed services, and production engineering — becoming a domain and platform expert.
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
You'll design and ship scalable AI and software systems, including:
- An agent platform - an extensible, Model Context Protocol (MCP)–based system of AI diagnostic skills integrated with enterprise data services, run inside engineers' existing tools (CLI, VS Code, and chat).
- Production engineering rails - CI-enforced quality gates, evaluation regression testing, comprehensive data science telemetry, and supply-chain security that let us ship AI safely and at scale. Every system is instrumented to surface performance, adoption, and quality signals in real time.
- Language-model pipelines - training, fine-tuning (including RLHF), and automated evaluation of models that reason over and assess support cases.
- Quality-evaluation systems - rubric-based, LLM-as-judge evaluation that scores case handling and surfaces coaching and compliance signals.
- Intelligent case-routing services - classification and ranking models that route cases to the right team and catch misrouted cases early.
- Privacy-preserving data tooling - a redaction pipeline (pattern-matching → transformer models → LLM) that protects PII and secrets across every data flow, forming the trusted substrate the rest of the platform depends on.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or preferred qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience developing and shipping production software services using TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or C#/.NET.
- Experience building AI-powered applications, including large language models (LLMs), AI agents, prompt engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP), machine learning models, or text classification/ranking systems.
- Experience designing cloud and data solutions using Azure, large-scale datasets, Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), and retrieval technologies such as keyword, vector, or semantic search.
- Experience evaluating and improving AI systems through model evaluation frameworks, RLHF, preference-based training, LLM-as-a-judge methodologies, labeled datasets, or benchmark development.
- Experience implementing software quality, security, and DevOps practices, including automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, CodeQL, dependency management, secret scanning, and branch governance.
- Experience developing customer-facing or enterprise applications, including solutions for privacy, compliance, PII detection, data redaction, customer support, or operational workflows.
Technical Support Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $86,100 - $169,800 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 $113,300 - $187,400 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.**