Principal System Architect

Do 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 System Architect to lead architecture evaluation and pathfinding of high-performance memory-centric system interconnects for scale-up system designs to enable efficient pod-scale compute and memory fabric solutions for accelerated computing workloads. This role has substantial technical and roadmap shaping responsibilities that require in-depth technical expertise in system interconnects, scale-up topologies, parallel computing and communication algorithms/libraries. The candidate should have a proven track-record co-designing system innovations collaborating with software and workload experts, and experience to influence and drive innovations from concept to productization.

Success in this role requires:

• Listening to those who operate Azure and their customers to identify current and emerging problems
• Identifying promising technologies to address problems that are relevant for Azure business, engage with ecosystem partners, and derisking productization via capable proof-of-concepts
• Working across organizational boundaries with roadmap planners, product architects, and hardware and software engineering teams 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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead path finding for high-performance and efficient memory-centric interconnect technologies for scale-up communication and memory disaggregation/expansion for accelerated computing systems.
• Collaborate across domain experts on AI workloads, software stacks, System-on-Chip (SoC), and platform infrastructure to engineer TCO-optimized solutions for Azure AI usages.
• Engage with Azure's supplier ecosystemon collaborations thatdeliver on the above charter
• Influence and shapehardware architecture, targeting three-to-six-year timeframe, with data-driven analysis, insights and recommendations.
• As appropriate, participate in industry standard bodies and consortia to driverelevant technologies.

Other

• Embody our Culture & Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  
  o OR equivalent experience.
  
  
• 8+ years of experience in systemand SoC architecture with demonstrated track record of
• 8+ years of experience leading significant hardware/software co-design projects involving GPGPU/accelerator systems/usages, and setting technical direction

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.

Preferred:

• Skilled in partnering and influencing architects, hardware engineers, software leads and executives.
• Ability to manage through ambiguity, bringing clarity and results orientation to engage and energize collaborators and stakeholders
• Collaboration skills, teamwork, and sense of presumed responsibility
• Experience leading and driving complex projectswith respect and integrity, including thosewith multiple workstreams spanning different business and technical disciplines.
• Intellectual curiosity and passion about learning and deploying new technologies.
• Problem-solvingskills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
• A background in computer and systems architecture,with thorough understanding of system software anditsinteraction with the hardware platform.

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 5, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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