Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Member of Technical Staff, Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems - MAI Superintelligence Team
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems team. This role involves architecting and co-designing next-generation AI systems at datacenter scale, focusing on optimizing performance, efficiency, and reliability across hardware and software boundaries.
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Responsibilities
Lead the co-design of AI systems across hardware and software boundaries, spanning accelerators, interconnects, memory systems, storage, runtimes, and distributed training/inference frameworks
Drive architectural decisions by analyzing real workloads, identifying bottlenecks across compute, communication, and data movement, and translating findings into actionable system and hardware requirements
Co-design and optimize parallelism strategies, execution models, and distributed algorithms to improve scalability, utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency of large-scale AI systems
Develop and evaluate what-if performance models to project system behavior under future workloads, model architectures, and hardware generations, providing early guidance to hardware and platform roadmaps
Partner with compiler, kernel, and runtime teams to unlock the full performance of current and next-generation accelerators, including custom kernels, scheduling strategies, and memory optimizations
Influence and guide AI hardware design at system and silicon levels, including accelerator microarchitecture, interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and system integration trade-offs
Lead cross-functional efforts to prototype, validate, and productionize high-impact co-design ideas, working across infrastructure, hardware, and product teams
Mentor senior engineers and researchers, set technical direction, and raise the overall bar for systems rigor, performance engineering, and co-design thinking across the organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Strong background in one or more of the following areas: AI accelerator or GPU architectures, Distributed systems and large-scale AI training/inference, High-performance computing (HPC) and collective communications, ML systems, runtimes, or compilers, Performance modeling, benchmarking, and systems analysis, Hardware–software co-design for AI workloads
Proficiency in systems-level programming (e.g., C/C++, CUDA, Python) and performance-critical software development
Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries and influence technical decisions involving multiple stakeholders
Experience designing or operating large-scale AI clusters for training or inference
Deep familiarity with LLMs, multimodal models, or recommendation systems, and their systems-level implications
Experience with accelerator interconnects and communication stacks (e.g., NCCL, MPI, RDMA, high-speed Ethernet or InfiniBand)
Background in performance modeling and capacity planning for future hardware generations
Prior experience contributing to or leading hardware roadmaps, silicon bring-up, or platform architecture reviews
Publications, patents, or open-source contributions in systems, architecture, or ML systems are a plus
Company
Microsoft
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