Base Salary
$166k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Windows ML compiler stack components.
- Lead initiatives improving AI workload performance, scalability, and efficiency across CPU, GPU, and NPU hardware.
- Drive NPU enablement and advanced optimization strategies for next-generation AI processors.
- Partner with hardware vendors and internal platform teams on AI hardware and software capabilities.
- Design and develop compiler infrastructure, execution engines, and developer tooling.
- Solve systems challenges involving scheduling, memory management, code generation, graph optimization, and hardware abstraction.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across projects and organizations.
- Help shape Microsoft’s long-term strategy for on-device AI and generative AI execution on Windows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience includes 6+ years working at low software-stack levels, device-driver development, and/or hardware-software integration.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of ML compiler, tool, and platform technology.
- 10+ years of experience delivering system software.
- Operating-system development experience in user mode or kernel mode, including driver development.
- Technical leadership experience in AI platform or framework research and development.
- Experience designing and developing ML hardware microarchitecture in real-world products.
- Strong communication and customer-interfacing skills, with the ability to handle ambiguity and prioritize issues.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at USD $165,600–$296,400 per year across the U.S.; a separate range applies in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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