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Principal Performance Architect

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, Redmond, WA, Sacramento, CA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) seeks a Principal Performance Architect to join the MAIA Architecture Team to define and deliver operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improve planning, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware, and to envision and implement future technical solutions for managing and optimizing Cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Actively collaborate with architects, and provide critical feedback for future SoC 
  • Use models to analyze performance bottlenecks in SoC for critical AI workloads
  • Opportunities for performance and power optimizations, and trade-offs on AI accelerators
  • Develop and test SoC and IP models, including model integration 
  • Continuous collaboration with design and performance verification teams to close on SoC performance

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Nice to have:PythonCC++Performance modeling

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation may be available; see https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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