Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

　　Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. We are looking to hire a Senior Computer Architect - Performance and Workload to join us.

　　Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.

　　The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market. The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions. Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysis are necessary to make informed, data-driven decisions. Our hardware technology pathfinding work helps keep our product portfolio competitive by maturing new concepts for productization. Together these functions are able to create a strategic hardware and technology roadmap.

　　Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

　　In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

　　Responsibilities

　　The candidate will be the trusted partner in the areas of computer architecture optimized for Microsoft Cloud first party services, workload analysis and benchmark development, and other related areas.

　　Workload Champion: The candidate will become a workload champion by collaborating with key first-party software experts. This involves understanding the application, creating dossiers, and becoming the key interface between application experts and hardware architects.

　　Develop Benchmarks: The candidate will be responsible for developing benchmarks that accurately represent customer workloads. They will also be required to analyze and characterize these benchmarks across various architectures.

　　Collaboration: The candidate will collaborate closely with other key software and hardware architects. This collaboration will involve architectural pathfinding and the definition of system/hardware architectural specifications.

　　The candidate will be expected to create and maintain best practices for high-quality product engineering. They will also need to develop best practices for development and conduct architectural reviews.

　　Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

　　Qualifications

　　Required Qualifications:

　　7+ years of computer engineering experience

　　OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience

　　OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience

　　OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

　　5+ years experience with computer architecture, performance analysis, workloads, and performance simulation.

　　3+ years experience in engineering development and/or research.

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　5+ of experience in engineering development and/or research.

　　Ability to understand and solve problems leveraging cross-stack optimizations spanning algorithms to silicon.

　　Ability to collaborate effectively in a large organization spanning multiple teams of hardware, software, and systems engineers and stakeholders.

　　Desire to collaborate, motivate, and contribute to a team of engineers.

　　Ability to work with minimal supervision.

　　Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

　　Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .