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Senior Principal Researcher - AI Systems Architecture

Microsoft· Research Sciences
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Mountain View, CA$165.6k - $296.4kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Microsoft Research seeks a Senior Principal Researcher to lead end-to-end AI system, memory, and hardware architecture work across workloads, runtimes, memory systems, and hardware, with pre-silicon modeling, prototype evaluation, and technology transfer.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end AI system, memory, and hardware architecture, identifying cross-layer opportunities across workloads, runtimes, memory systems, and hardware.
  • Develop architectural abstractions and mechanisms that connect AI model execution behavior with platform capabilities.
  • Analyze emerging AI workloads, including computation, memory access, communication, data movement, bandwidth, latency, capacity, and power requirements.
  • Drive pre-silicon architectural exploration, performance modeling, feasibility analysis, and implementation pathfinding for next-generation AI hardware.
  • Evaluate trade-offs across performance, bandwidth, latency, power, thermal limits, silicon area, packaging, and total cost of ownership.
  • Build analytical models, simulators, prototypes, and experimental systems to validate architectural hypotheses.
  • Collaborate across research and product engineering, publish research, mentor technical contributors, and transfer promising concepts toward deployment.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field AND 7+ years related research experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field AND 9+ years related research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Computer architecture
Nice to have:Memory systemsPre-silicon architectural definitionPerformance modeling / simulatorsWorkload analysis
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