Microsoft Principal Architect 

United States, California, Mountain View 

200668437

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

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• 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 protocols for large scale networks with high efficiency
• Understanding of various Network Topology and System level challenges to design
• Software programming using Python/C++

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 20, 2024.

• Lead the development of hardware architecture for High-SpeedNetwork 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.

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