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Senior Platform PnP Engineer

Microsoft· Hardware Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, Hillsboro, OR$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Platform PnP Engineer at Microsoft SCHIE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) focusing on platform power, performance, and efficiency for AI compute platforms across Azure datacenters; leads cross-functional initiatives and guides future silicon and platform roadmaps.

Responsibilities

  • Lead platform power and performance strategy for next-generation Microsoft AI compute platforms, driving performance-per-watt, scalability, efficiency, and TCO.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship for a team of engineers while leading cross-functional initiatives addressing platform power, performance, and efficiency challenges.
  • Partner with business, architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, validation, OS, 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 scalability.
  • Lead power-performance characterization, profiling, and benchmarking across Azure datacenter deployments using real workloads, AI training/inference, and benchmarks to guide data-driven design decisions.
  • Influence future silicon and platform roadmaps through analysis of workload behavior, bottlenecks, energy efficiency opportunities, and AI infrastructure requirements.
  • Communicate technical strategies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering leadership and executives to align organizations and accelerate delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure.

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

Skills

Required:Platform power-performance architectureWorkload characterizationCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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