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Principal AI Silicon Architect

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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Mountain View, CA, Redmond, WA, Austin, TX$165.6k - $296.4kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Microsoft Silicon SCHIE team seeks a Principal AI Silicon Architect to define and deliver power architecture and optimization for high-power AI accelerator SoCs, collaborating across SoC, package, board, and system levels to maximize performance per watt and overall efficiency in Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end power architecture for high-power AI accelerator SoCs, including tradeoff analysis extending to package, board, and system.
  • Define SoC and package-level power-management architecture (DVFS, clock and power gating, low-power states, workload-aware power management, etc.).
  • Define architectures for high-power operating conditions (workload power excursions, peak/sustained power, transient behavior, power/thermal constraints).
  • Partner with performance and workload teams to maximize performance per watt and system-level efficiency; drive architectural tradeoffs across performance, power, thermal, reliability, area, cost, and implementation complexity.
  • Translate workload and product requirements into system and silicon-level power budgets, design targets, and architectural requirements.
  • Define SoC-to-system interfaces and control mechanisms for power, thermal, and platform management.
  • Collaborate with SoC architecture, physical design, package, board/system, power delivery, thermal, firmware, platform, manufacturing, and validation teams from early architecture through product deployment.
  • Provide technical leadership throughout the development lifecycle (architecture spec, design reviews, tradeoffs, silicon bring-up, characterization, optimization).

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Power architecturePower managementSystem-level optimization

Benefits

  • See company benefits page linked in job description (not enumerated in description).
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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