Microsoft Principal Computer Architect Performance Workload Focus 

United States, Oregon, Hillsboro 

165117136

Responsibilities for this role include leading CPU and AI hardware architectural and microarchitectural pathfinding and requirements gathering with customers and users. Working with partner teams and organizations to model and architect novel processors, system-on-chips, accelerators, and datacenter systems, and analyzing workload performance on existing systems.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical engineering development and/or research experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.
• 7+ years experience with computer architecture, performance analysis, workloads, and performance simulation.

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:

• Ability to understand and solve problems leveraging cross-stack optimizations spanning algorithms to silicon.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a large organization spanning multiple teams of hardware, software, and systems engineers and stakeholders.
• Desire to collaborate, motivate, and contribute to a team of capable engineers.

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 June 18, 2024.

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• Collaborate closely with other key software and hardware architects on architectural pathfinding, definition of system/hardware architectural specifications.
• Performance estimation and modeling of cloud workloads on datacenter scale systems
• Initiate, scope and undertake projects with multiple external partners and stakeholders.
• Drive principled, major technical decisions
• Create and maintain best practices for high quality product engineering, development best practices and conduct architectural reviews.

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