Principal Hardware Architect

Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure team is seeking an experienced Principal Hardware Architect to help architect and model Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware and systems in large-scale datacenters. Our team operates at the intersection of AI algorithmic innovation, purpose-built AI hardware and systems, and software. We are a cross-discipline team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture.

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Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for this role include leading AI 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.

• Be the trusted partner and technical leader in the areas of computer architecture, machine learning/AI accelerators, large-scale systems for AI, datacenters, 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 AI 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.
• Awareness and ability to stay abreast of upcoming technical trends and internalroadmaps, including monitoring of latest AI research trends.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical engineering experienceOR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience
  OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ 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.
• Strong communication skills and the desire to collaborate, motivate, and lead a team of highly capable engineers.
• Self-directed, ability to work with minimal supervision.
• 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.

Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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