Remote Multidisciplinary Engineering Lead

Microsoft; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering seeks a Multidisciplinary Manager to lead a cross‑discipline engineering team, delivering customer outcomes with a portfolio mindset from problem definition to deployed solutions.

You will coach talent across software engineering, technical program management, and data science, partnering with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure excellence and responsible AI practices in delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience
• 3+ years customer-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
• Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and use of cloud AI platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, owning a portfolio of work to maximize customer and Microsoft value through strong portfolio and delivery leadership.
• Provide clear coaching, career development, and performance support for engineers across software engineering, technical program management, and data science, fostering growth in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Serve as a player‑coach by taking on selected engagements, modeling engineering fundamentals, customer‑obsessed execution, and inclusive, cross‑discipline collaboration.
• Partner with leadership and discipline managers to ensure healthy team rhythms and strong operational excellence across engagements.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning by elevating engineering practices, sharing reusable patterns and accelerators, and strengthening our multidisciplinary operating model.
• Champion AI‑forward hypervelocity engineering by guiding teams to apply responsible AI practices, leverage accelerators and reusable patterns, and integrate emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions and delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Customer-facing experience

Delivery management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

15+ years technical engineering experience with coding

Tools

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Python

Job description

Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering seeks a Multidisciplinary Manager to lead a cross‑discipline engineering team, delivering customer outcomes with a portfolio mindset from problem definition to deployed solutions.

You will coach talent across software engineering, technical program management, and data science, partnering with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure excellence and responsible AI practices in delivery.