Required Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience.
 
- 8+ years of relevant experience in system (compute,networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing AI/ML scale up and scale out networking for accelerator-based hardware systems, as well as developing MAC/PCS and SERDES for high-speed interfaces and high-density connectivity equipment.
- 5+ years of experience to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) toidentify
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:
- 8+ years ofexperience developing GPU, FPGA basedaccelerator platforms for AI/ML used cases
- Great to have proventrack recordof bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology.
- Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs),compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.
- Understanding on Networking hardware - QSFP-dd cables, DACs, AECs, Cable Backplanes, NICs, PHY, Switches
- Ability to define validation test cases to qualify end to end network across functionality,performanceand scale testing
- Ability to trouble shoot network issues at multiple layers - Physical layer, Datalink and Network Layer, Protocol layer
- Great to have: Understanding on AI Network, Network Collectives, Traffic profiles in AI networks, Ultra Ethernet
- Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
- Experience managing hardware programsthroughthe entire product lifecycle.
- Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
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 October 23rd, 2025.