Base Salary
$166k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap, and multi-release execution strategy for critical AI framework, performance, benchmarking, and developer-productivity capabilities.
- Lead cross-team technical alignment, resolve competing requirements, and drive clear architecture, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, develop emerging technical leads, and establish quality, maintainability, and inclusive engineering standards.
- Steer ambiguous investigations spanning models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and hardware.
- Provide hands-on leadership through prototypes, critical-path implementation, design and code reviews, debugging, and operational-readiness work.
- Build scalable measurement, automation, observability, and engineering mechanisms from one-off analyses.
- Drive improvements in model onboarding velocity, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C++ or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check and other applicable Microsoft, customer, or government security screenings.
- Preferred master's degree with 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience serving as a technical lead for complex cross-team initiatives, including strategy, architecture, stakeholder alignment, and end-to-end execution.
- Extensive experience designing and shipping complex, high-performance, or distributed software systems.
- Strong foundation in software architecture, computer architecture, and accelerator-aware optimization.
- Advanced experience with AI/ML workloads and frameworks.
- Track record of creating reusable platforms, influencing senior technical and business stakeholders, developing technical leaders, and scaling engineering practices.
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