Microsoft Research Scientist - HPC AI Networking 

Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich 

517103786

SPARC is looking for a research-focused HPC and AI networking expert with 10+ years experience in HPC and AI systems with a particular focus on interconnect technologies, algorithms and implementations. A qualified candidate will be familiar with congestion control, load balancing, networking and RDMA semantics and implementation details. They should feel comfortable design, evaluating and reaching conclusions from simulation and hardware based evaluation of network algorithms.

Required:

• Significant number of years of network design for HPC, AI, or supercomputer systems.
• Experience designing and evaluating network transport protocols, congestion control, load balancing, and collective communication implementations.

Preferred:

• Experience with NS3 and similar network simulation tools.
• Experience and understanding of distributed AI workload communication patterns.

• Help to craft the overall direction of network transports and endpoint implementations across HPC, AI and datacenter systems for Microsoft.
• Engage with the networking community to align on standards and technology improvements required for high performance networking.
• Analyze and evaluate network behaviors across Microsoft’s datacenter workloads and recommend protocol and topology improvements based on the findings.