$142,800–$274,800 Per Year
Analysis Skills, Architectural Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Growth, C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Design Verification, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), IP (Internet Protocol), Import/Export, Manufacturing, Microsoft Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Network Operations Center, Operational Measurement, Performance Analysis, Performance Modeling, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Process Improvement, Prototyping, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Regulatory Requirements, Software Engineering, Sustainability, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Test Plan/Schedule, Time Management, Xbox
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the MAIA Architecture Team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Principal Performance Architect to join the team.
Responsibilities
- Actively collaborate with architects and provide critical feedback for future SoC
- Use models to analyze performance bottlenecks in SoC for critical AI workloads
- Prototype opportunities for performance and power optimizations, and trade-offs on AI accelerators
- Develop and test SoC and IP models, including model integration
- Continuous collaboration with design and performance verification teams to close on SoC performance
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering 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.
This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) experience working on or leading projects from beginning-to-end.
- 4+ years of experience with Python, C, C++
- 6+ years of experience with performance modeling at various levels of abstraction, and analysis
- Experience in architecture and workload analysis on GPUs
Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
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