Microsoft Principal Silicon Performance Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

467556975

Required/minimum qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience with silicon performance and functional modeling at various levels of abstraction, and analysis
• 3+ years of experience with Python, C, C++

Other Qualifications

• Abilityto meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequired 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience working on or leading projects from beginning-to-end.
• 3+ years experience in one or more of the following fields
  • Lossless Data compression algorithms (such as Deflate or Zstd)
  • Image/Video compression algorithms
• Experience in working with AI tools in the day-to-day work

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17th, 2025.

• Responsible for performance architecture for Microsoft silicon IP accelerators, including:

  • Defining performance requirements

  • Developing performance models

  • Analyzing performance to ensure requirements are met

• Collaborate with other architects and customer teams to define performance requirements

• Develop silicon IP performance models and bit-accurate functional models

• Use models to analyze performance and identify bottlenecks for planned use cases

• Prototype opportunities for performance and power optimizations

• Embody Microsoft’s Culture & Values