Microsoft Senior Performance Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

862957002

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing SOC or IP performance models and benchmarks from conception to microarchitecture specification.

Other Qualifications:

• 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

• Deep understanding of computer architecture, System on Chip (SOC) and system-software architectures, and their performance tradeoffs.
• Significant understanding of input/output (I/O), memory subsystems, coherency flows, interconnect, Quality of Service (QoS) traffic.
• Knowledge of performance monitors and post-silicon SOC and performance tuning is a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Develop performance modeling methodologies by creating and owning System on Chip (SOC) / Intellectual Property (IP) cycle-accurate/approximate performance models and analysis tools in C++ and Python.

• Use workload information and working with Micro-architects and Register Transfer Level (RTL) team to identify performance bottlenecks. Collaborate across functionally to propose architectural/microarchitectural changes and provide the required quantitative justification.

• Leverage AI tools and infrastructure for comprehensive performance modeling, including coding, performance tuning, and analysis.

• Verify the correlation of the SOC performance models to the RTL implementation.

• Work closely with the product architecture System On Chip (SOC) architecture teams, IP architecture, to ensure our SOC and IPs enable performant, efficient, and industry-leading systems.

• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion