9 days ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap, and multi-release execution strategy for AI framework, performance, benchmarking, and developer-productivity capabilities.
- Lead cross-team technical alignment, architecture decisions, prioritization, trade-off resolution, execution planning, and measurable outcomes.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical leads, establish quality and maintainability standards, and build an inclusive engineering culture.
- Lead cross-stack investigations spanning models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and silicon.
- Provide hands-on leadership through prototypes, critical-path implementation, design and code reviews, complex debugging, and operational readiness.
- 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 languages such as C++ or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives, setting strategy, making architectural decisions, aligning stakeholders, and driving execution through production.
- 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 across teams.
Benefits
- Typical U.S. base pay range is USD $165,600–$296,400 per year; the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area have a separate range of USD $220,800–$331,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.