Microsoft Principal Hardware Architect - Optical Technologies 

United States, California, Mountain View 

574555190

Success in this role requires:

• Listening to those who operate Azure and their customers to identify current and emerging problems
• Identifying promising technologies to address problems that are relevant for Azure business, engage with ecosystem partners, and derisking productization via capable proof-of-concepts
• Working across organizational boundaries with roadmap planners, product architects, and hardware and software engineering teams to land promising solutions in Azure data centers.

• Bachelor's Degree in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience

  • Master's Degree in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience

  • Doctorate Degree in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years of technical engineering experience

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Familiarity with datacenter-class optical module technologies such asQuad Small Form-factor Pluggable Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP)/(OSFP) form factor pluggable modules or emerging Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) or Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) approaches.
• Experience in architecting optical transceivers for target metrics such as physical dimensions, power (or energy efficiency), bandwidth density, temperature sensitivity, Bit Error Rate (BER) and failure rates.
• Expertise with optical transceiver ingredients such as Electronic Integrated Circuit (EIC), Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC), drivers, Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIAs), photo-detectors, modulators and lasers.

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:

• A background in computer and systems architecture with exposure to AI or HPC systems with an understanding of scale-up and scale-out requirements is highly desired.
• Skilled in partnering and influencing architects, hardware engineers, software leads and executives.
• Ability to manage through ambiguity, bringing clarity and results orientation to engage and energize collaborators and stakeholders.
• Verbal and written communication skills, and ability to articulate and engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience leading and driving complex projects with respect and integrity, including those with multiple workstreams spanning different business and technical disciplines.

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 December 19, 2024.

• Identify optical technologies, quantify their value and prioritize them for future datacenter usages.
• Recommend a product intercept strategy based on conducting comprehensive trade-off analysis of optical technology options.
• Propose Proof of Concept (POC) / prototyping frameworks for the rigorous evaluation of optical technologies.
• Engage with optical technology vendors and conduct detailed analysis of competing technologies.
• Educate / disseminate technology directions to Microsoft’s internal stakeholders on optical foundations and fundamental directions.
• Represent Microsoft’s directions to industry and academia through leading conferences.