Principal Architect

Microsoft is a leader in design of world-class devices. Come join the dynamic Microsoft Silicon Architecture team as a Principal Architect - team that is responsible for Architecting Microsoft AI Accelerator (MAIA) Silicon and is changing the world through innovation. We are a growing team of experienced silicon developers, working in a startup environment.

Microsoft’s MAIA architecture team is looking for outstanding Performance Analysis Architects to help analyze, and accelerate AI application performance on Microsoft’s custom AI accelerators

We are looking for a Principal Architect to join our team!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of hardware architecture for High-Speed Network Interface Cards(NIC), networking interfaces, and protocol processing pipelines across multiple SOCs.
• Demonstrate expertise in High-Speed Data Transfer Fabric protocols to ensure high efficiency in large-scale networks.
• Understand and address Network Topology and System-level design challenges to support high-performance scale-up and scale-out networks.
• Design and implement >100G Ethernet-based interface architectures, leveraging substantial experience in the field.
• Apply an understanding of L1 to L4 layers of the Network Protocol stack to guide design and troubleshooting efforts.
• Analyze and address End-to-End Transport Protocol Architecture challenges for large-scale networks, including congestion, flow control, topologies, load balancing, traffic patterns, and uniform latency.
• Develop and utilize models or simulation tools to model protocol and architecture ideas effectively.
• Work comfortably with diverse and large teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Collaborate across functional teams (Architecture, Design, Verification, Validation, System, Software, Lab Bring-Up) to integrate and support comprehensive solutions.

• Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Network Interface Card hardware architecture and design, including the development of high-speed Network Interface Cards, networking interfaces, and protocol processing pipelines for various Systems on Chips

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in relevant CS/EE/CE
• Background in deep neural network training, and inference workload optimizations
• Experience in architecture and workload analysis on GPUs
• Hardware Architecture development experience of High-Speed NIC, Networking Interface and Protocol Processing pipeline for multiple SOCs
• Working knowledge of different kinds of High-Speed Data transfer Fabric protoc