New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Oregon, Hillsboro | |
 Jan 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware and systems designs to propel Microsoft's cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy? Join our Leading-Edge Architecture Pathfinding (LEAP) team within the Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC)organization in Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI). AHSI is the team behind Microsoft's expanding cloud business, responsible for delivering the hardware systems and infrastructure for cloud computing across Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. The SPARC organization is responsible for strategy, planning and architecture pathfinding, and manages Azure's hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for Microsoft's current and future on-line services. The LEAP team within SPARC is at the forefront of systems architecture and technology pathfinding spanning compute, memory, storage, network and system interconnects. Drawing on deep insights of workloads, emerging technology trends, and focused industry engagements, LEAP team's charter is to define and evaluate novel systems architecture innovations through hardware/software co-design and advance them through technical readiness for productization. The LEAP team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for architecture pathfinding and evaluation of system interconnects for high-performance accelerated computing systems, with a goal to enable performant, flexible provisioning of memory and compute infrastructure. This role has substantial technical and roadmap shaping responsibilities that requires in-depth technical expertise in AI models, parallel computing, communication algorithms and libraries, for serving and training systems, scale-up and scale-out interconnects/topologies, and system architecture modelling. The candidate must have a proven track-record of accelerator system co-design that extends from workloads to hardware and software. Additionally, they should possess the capability to guide and influence innovations from the initial concept stage all the way through to product development. Success in this role requires: Listening to those whooperateAzure and their customers toidentifycurrent andemerging problems Identifyingpromising technologies to addressproblemsrelevant for Azure business,engaging ecosystem partners,andderiskingproductizationviacapableproof-of-concepts Workingacross organizationalboundaries with roadmap planners, product architects, and hardware and software engineeringteams to land promising solutions in Azure data centers. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop performance analysis methodologies and tools to evaluate memory-centric interconnect technologies for scale-up communication and memory disaggregation/expansion for accelerated computing workloads.Develop deep insights through workload characterization and correlation to identify systems optimization opportunities.Collaborate with domain experts on AI workloads, software compiler/libraries, SoC, and platform infrastructure to engineer TCO-optimized solutions for Azure AI usages. Influence and shapehardware architecture, targeting three-to-six-year timeframe, with data-driven analysis, insights and recommendations. Embody our culture and values. | |