The Microsoft Search team is looking for talented Software Engineers - individuals with a desire to develop solutions to very difficult problems, to create, innovate, and define the next generation of Search across the company. Our mission is to allow users to get what they want fast and efficiently from any Microsoft search box. You will have an opportunity to collaborate with teams across the company -Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Outlook, Microsoft Office, One-drive for Business, Share point and many more! You'd be part of a team working to modernize the way users discover, navigate and search across their organization's data corpus and help make them more productive.

We strive to break down the barriers of traditional search and instead offer the most relevant and contextual based suggestions to help users discover the content they are looking for; spanning their Contacts, Emails, Documents and their organization's data. We work extremely closely with a variety of teams to guarantee user privacy and compliance while also offering users a robust set of experiences that help them find what they're looking for. To power these experiences, the team operates and maintains highly scalable services that work faster than a blink of an eye to help make experiences shine and delight our users.

We work with all kinds of relevance and research/science teams from within Bing to MSR and beyond to scout, incubate and deliver compelling and differentiated experiences to the user. This unique and high impact opportunity will empower you to apply both your engineering and machine learning skills. As a member of our team your contribution would have cross-division wide impact and provide excellent growth potential.

We are looking for a passionate, creative, self-starting software developer who thrives in a start-up environment. You will be expected to work on many levels - from high level vision, to design and implementations of both self-contained components and large, team-oriented code bases. Your coding skills will be challenged writing scalable, distributed, and highly efficient components. You will also be responsible for monitoring live site to ensure rock-solid availability. Understanding of Machine Learning, IR and NLP techniques is preferred. You will be responsible for evaluating new techniques by defining the metrics to measure their effectiveness, identifying opportunities through data mining, evaluating the results of A/B experiments as well as implementation of your techniques into our offline and live production systems. As an integral member of the team, you will contribute to shipping software through multiple product cycles while dealing with challenges such as cross-team dependencies, rapid shipping schedules, and ambiguous requirements.

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Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,400 - $151,800 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 $100,300 - $165,400 per year.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 10 scheduled paid holidays, and up to 80 hours Holistic Health Time Off. Additionally, hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid vacation time, and salaried/exempt employees have Discretionary Time Off (DTO).

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We are committed to the principle of pay equity – paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding Roles at Microsoft
The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply – Software Engineering IC2.
The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts – the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role – a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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