Software Engineer II

Overview
Azure High Performance Computing and AI Platform (HPC/AI) group is the team behind Azure’s cloud offering that powers some of the most demanding and largest scale AI training and inference workloads. The virtual machine (VM) series we own feature cutting edge GPUs and accelerators, as well as a state-of-the-art scale-out network infrastructure to enable these workloads. We collaborate with Microsoft teams and industry partners to design and bring up the underlying platform, and we build software to expose this platform as an Azure service.

As a Software Engineer in the Azure HPC/AI team, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering the next generations of our platform by solving technical problems at all levels of the stack, contributing to our codebases to enable new features on our VMs, working on architectural proposals, and collaborating with our industry partners. This position involves deep technical work focused on hardware/software interactions, device virtualization, and performance analysis of GPU workloads in VMs. You will also have opportunities to work with upper layers of the Azure infrastructure software as we integrate VM offerings across the stack. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact Microsoft’s AI infrastructure and initiatives.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We value growth, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Analyzes functionality, integration, and performance issues at various levels of the hardware/software stack on current and future generations of AI training platforms.

Designs and codes solutions that improve functional correctness, stability, and performance of AI training oriented VM offerings and related services. When appropriate, drives internal partner teams or industry partners to implement such solutions.

Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability and follows best practices.

Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and collaborates with engineers across products/solutions, including on-call to monitor system readiness and uptime.

Develops playbooks for the team to resolve issues.

Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.

Contributes to ensuring Azure platform performance, scalability on-demand, and resilience under heavy workloads; participates in test-driven engineering to reduce regressions and improve infrastructure quality.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND hands-on experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience

Experience in HPC or Machine Learning

Other Qualifications:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND hands-on experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.

Familiarity with Machine Learning, AI Infrastructure, Operating Systems fundamentals and virtualization technologies, accelerators.

Experience with Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware, co-designing hardware-software, profiling and performance analysis tools.

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Senioritiy level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development

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