Microsoft

Senior and/or Principal Software Engineer - Performance

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1 month ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$120k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify and drive end-to-end inference performance improvements for OpenAI and other state-of-the-art LLMs.
  • Benchmark models on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs and Microsoft silicon.
  • Optimize and monitor LLM performance and build software tooling to identify opportunities from the model level through systems and silicon.
  • Build tools to accelerate porting models to new NVIDIA and AMD GPUs and enable large-scale deployment.
  • Design, implement, and test components for AI, DNN, and LLM frameworks and tools.
  • Reduce the complexity of key components and pipelines to improve system performance and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: foundation in software engineering, computer architecture, GPU architecture, and hardware neural-network acceleration.
  • Preferred: experience analyzing and optimizing state-of-the-art LLM performance and using GPU profiling tools.
  • Preferred: DNN/LLM inference experience and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX Runtime, with familiarity with CUDA, ROCm, or Triton.
  • Preferred: ability to collaborate with researchers, developers, and cross-team partners.

Tech Stack

AzureCC#C++JavaJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL ServerPythonPyTorchTensorFlowWindows

Categories

Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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