Microsoft

Principal Platform Power and Performance Engineer

Microsoft$142K — $274K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering fields with significant technical experience
  • 8+ years in compute and AI systems/platforms design
  • 8+ years dealing with architectures like SoC, CPU, GPU, or AI accelerators
  • Deep cross-collaboration experience with engineering teams for platform solutions
  • Ability to pass stringent Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy for optimizing power and performance of next-gen Microsoft AI Compute platforms
  • Mentor and technically guide a team of engineers while spearheading cross-functional initiatives
  • Collaborate with various engineering teams to define platform requirements and optimize solutions
  • Drive architecture and tuning for silicon and platform power-performance metrics
  • Enhance interactions among hardware, firmware, and datacenter infrastructure for maximum efficiency
  • Characterize and benchmark power-performance across Azure data centers
  • Influence future roadmaps with insights into workload performance and bottlenecks
  • Communicate complex technical strategies to leadership stakeholders for alignment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Generous retirement savings plan with company match
  • Flexible work schedule and remote work options
  • Extensive vacation and personal leave policies
  • Access to professional development and training programs.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Lead platform power and performance strategy for next-generation Microsoft AI compute platforms, driving industry-leading performance-per-watt, scalability, efficiency, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship for a team of highly skilled engineers while leading cross-functional initiatives that solve complex platform power, performance, and efficiency challenges.
  • Partner with business, architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, validation, operating systems, manufacturing, and customer engineering teams to define requirements and deliver optimized platform solutions.
  • Drive silicon and platform power-performance architecture, including workload characterization, power management features, frequency/voltage optimization, memory subsystem efficiency, accelerator utilization, and system-level performance tuning.
  • Analyze and optimize interactions between silicon, power delivery, thermal solutions, firmware, operating systems, and datacenter infrastructure to maximize performance, efficiency, reliability, and operational scalability.
  • Lead power-performance characterization, profiling, and benchmarking across Azure datacenter deployments using customer workloads, AI training and inference applications, and synthetic benchmarks to guide data-driven design decisions.
  • Influence future silicon and platform roadmaps through deep analysis of workload behavior, performance bottlenecks, power efficiency opportunities, and emerging AI infrastructure requirements.
  • Communicate technical strategies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders, driving alignment across organizations and accelerating delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in compute and/or AI systems/platforms design and development.
  • 8+ years of experience with SoC, CPU, GPU, or AI accelerator architectures, including power management, performance analysis, memory subsystems, interconnects, power delivery, and thermal solutions.
  • 8+ years of experience collaborating across hardware, firmware, operating systems, silicon architecture, and validation engineering teams to deliver platform solutions.


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:
  • Experience with hyperscale cloud infrastructure, large-scale AI compute platforms, and datacenter operations.
  • Experience with custom silicon, AI accelerators, and silicon bring-up from pre-silicon validation through production deployment.
  • Knowledge of server architecture, power delivery systems, and liquid cooling technologies.
  • Experience with workload characterization, profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis for AI/ML workloads in large-scale datacenter environments.
  • Experience optimizing performance, efficiency, and performance-per-watt across hardware and software systems.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering disciplines.


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Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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