Microsoft Performance Modelling Engineer 

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona 

189077343

The Cloud Architecture Team is seeking a Systems Performance Modelling & Analysis Engineer with experience in workload profiling, characterization and in-depth workload performance analysis, performance modelling, and proposing innovations in ISA, CPU core and SoC microarchitecture, novel memory hierarchy, accelerators, network, and overall system architecture.

• B.S. in Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent experience (M.S. or Ph.D. desirable) with a minimum of 4 (3 or 1) years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in computer/SoC architecture, micro-architecture, workload analysis, bottleneck analysis and performance trade-offs
• Functional and Timing Model development and analysis experience for Arm, x86 and RISCV ISAs
• Excellent (written and verbal) communication and collaboration skills in english
• C/C++ & Python programming skills
• Experience using modern software development techniques and workflows such as continuous integration and continuous delivery

• Develop and/or extend functional and timing models of complex SOCs and validate them against other models or hardware reference systems
• Understanding the operation of complex datacentre workloads
• Build, document and maintain internal tools, scripts and analysis methods as needed to carry out robust and automated performance analysis
• Utilize external and internal tools to characterize, profile and analyse key cloud workloads.
• Define the next generation computer architecture for the cloud at all levels of innovation to create a datacentre that is truly optimized (performance, power, and cost) for Azure’s cloud critical workloads.