Location: Hillsboro, OR
Company: Microsoft
Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's " Intelligent Cloud" mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure.
We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, One Drive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. The SPARC organization manages Azure's hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft's current
and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market.
The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions. Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysis are necessary to making informed, data-driven decisions. Our hardware technology pathfinding work helps keep our product portfolio competitive by maturing new concepts for productization. Together these functions are able to create a strategic hardware and technology
roadmap. The Compute Architecture team within SPARC is seeking an experienced Principal Computer Architect, Performance and Workload Focus to help architect, compute and artificial intelligence platforms for Microsoft Cloud.
Our team operates at the intersection of System on Chip (So C) and systems architecture, workload understanding and performance characterization, and benchmark development. We are a cross-discipline team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture. Responsibilities for this role include leading central processing unit and artificial intelligence hardware architectural and microarchitectural pathfinding and requirements gathering with customers and users.
Working with partner teams and organizations to model and architect novel processors, system-on-chips, accelerators, and datacenter systems, and analyzing workload performance on existing systems. You will also lead a small team of Computer Architects who interact with our partner teams, perform workload analysis, formulate representative benchmarks, and discover and evaluate central processing unit SOC and Platform architecture proposals. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications 12+ years of technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years of technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
10 years of experience in relevant engineering development and/or research. Additional or Preferred Qualifications 18+ years of technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 15+ years of technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
7+ years of people management experience. 15+ years of experience in relevant engineering development and/or research.
Ability to understand and solve problems leveraging cross-stack optimizations spanning algorithms to silicon. Ability to collaborate effectively in a large organization spanning multiple teams of hardware, software, and systems engineers and stakeholders. Communication skills and the desire to collaborate, motivate, and contribute to a team of highly capable engineers. Self-directed, ability to work with minimal supervision. Hardware Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U. S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers. /us/en/us-corporate-pay 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, interaction (including pregnancy), interactionual 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Responsibilities: Collaborate and drive efforts across multiple engineering groups (business units) within Microsoft and external technology providers and organizations; success will be achieved by collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet or exceeding business unit requirements with technical solutions, as well as developing and putting in place processes and methods that bring about efficient collaboration and decision making within Microsoft and Azure. Be the trusted paartner and technical leader in the areas of computer architecture optimized for Microsoft Cloud first party services, workload analysis and benchmark development, and other related areas.
Collaborate closely with other key software and hardware architects on architectural pathfinding, definition of system/hardware architectural specifications. Performance estimation and modeling of cloud workloads on datacenter scale systems. Initiate, scope and undertake projects with multiple external partners and stakeholders. Drive principled, major technical decisions. Create and maintain best practices for high quality product engineering, development best practices and conduct architectural reviews.
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