Microsoft Software Engineer II HPC & AI Benchmarking 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

636101041

As a Software Engineer in this team, you will be responsible for creating and running benchmarks and representative workflows, and analyzing the performance of Azure’s supercomputers. You will also work on creating automation to run these workflows as part of system validation for our largest supercomputers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year experience with AI and/or HPC workflows and/or benchmarks
• 1+ year experience with test and/or benchmark automation

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience with performance analysis and tuning of large-scale supercomputers
• Knowledge of how large language models are implemented (key computational kernels, parallelization techniques, etc.)
  
• Knowledge of common HPC applications

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 July 23, 2025.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) benchmarks, workflows, and cluster validation tests.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for benchmarks, workflows, and validation tests with little oversight.
• Creates and implements benchmark, workflow, and validation code, reusing code as applicable.
• Collaborates with partner teams to identify and resolve issues with Azure supercomputers that are found during benchmarking and validation.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.