At Microsoft, we're a community of passionate innovators driven by curiosity and purpose. We collaborate to imagine what's possible and accelerate our careers in a cloud-powered world where openness and innovation unlock limitless potential. Artificial Intelligence is central to Microsoft's strategy—and the Azure AI Platform is leading the charge. As part of our team, you'll contribute to cutting-edge projects that solve real-world challenges using transformative technologies. We are looking for a Software Engineer 2 - Core AI to join our agile team at the core of Microsoft's AI infrastructure. This team is building the Next Gen Scheduling & Optimization Platform—a foundational infrastructure layer that powers OpenAI models and other large-scale AI workloads across Azure. In this role, you will be responsible for managing inferencing capacity that fuels Microsoft's AI ambitions. Our fleet of premium AI accelerators runs state-of-the-art OpenAI models, forming the backbone of Microsoft's Copilots and the Azure OpenAI Service. You'll help dynamically allocate resources across models and customer offerings, monitor usage in near real-time, and rebalance capacity to drive massive efficiency gains. You'll work on high-impact distributed systems that support low-latency, high-volume, mission-critical customer scenarios, solving complex challenges in resource orchestration, telemetry, and performance optimization. You'll collaborate across Azure, OpenAI, CoreAI Services, and infrastructure teams to shape the future of scalable, cost-efficient AI.