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Principal AI Optimization Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Israel, Tel Aviv, Herzliyafull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Leadership role to build and lead the AI Optimization team within the AI Frameworks Group, setting vision and strategy for AI performance optimization across Microsoft’s AI hardware portfolio, and delivering step-change gains in performance, scalability, and efficiency for critical AI workloads.

Responsibilities

  • People Management: model values, coach objectives, grow and attract talent.
  • Coding: provide technical leadership in code reviews, enforce coding standards, promote best practices, and drive code quality and performance.
  • Design: establish test strategies, ensure security testing, design and mentor on system architecture, evaluate new technologies, and lead design discussions; own architecture proposals and alignment across teams.
  • Engineering Excellence: stay current with developments, share knowledge, develop tools, collaborate with partner teams for end-to-end testing and deployment readiness, promote automation and zero-touch deployment.
  • Implement: lead experimentation and metrics for feature flags and experimentation, plan multi-product releases, ensure security protections and compliance, flighting for production readiness, disaster recovery planning, rollback planning, and deployment automation.
  • Reliability and Supportability: sign-off on logging/telemetry, monitor system health, on-call readiness, incident response, playbooks, and postmortems to reduce incidents.
  • Understand User Requirements: collaborate with product managers, customers, and security/privacy experts to gather requirements, incorporate feedback, and ensure customer value and security/privacy needs are addressed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 10+ years of technical engineering experience, including 2+ years designing and implementing AI kernels, AI optimization algorithms, or AI compilation techniques (or closely related performance and systems optimization work).
  • Proficiency in C++ and Python.
  • 3+ years of people management experience.
  • Proven ability to recruit and build a team, and to create energy and momentum.

Skills

Required:C++Python
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