Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph/Entity Systems - Microsoft AI Search
Microsoft · Mountain View, CA · Software Engineering
About this role
Microsoft is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with JavaScript, Java, C, C#. Compensation is listed at $119,800–$234,700 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Department
- Software Engineering
- Posted
- Jun 1, 2026
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Job description
from Microsoft careersWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Entity Data team within Microsoft AI Search. Our team develops AI-powered systems that identify, extract, enrich, and understand real-world entities from large-scale content sources. We leverage machine learning and LLM-based techniques to build high-quality entity representations and relationships that power intelligent search and AI experiences.
This role focuses on solving challenging problems in information extraction, entity understanding, entity resolution, and knowledge acquisition from unstructured and semi-structured data. The ideal candidate is passionate about applying software engineering, machine learning, and LLM technologies to improve the quality and coverage of entity intelligence at scale.
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