Principal AI Network Technical Lead

** Overview*
* Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, One Drive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.

We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal AI Network Technical Lead to join the team.

SCHIE

** Responsibilities*
* + Own end-to-end development, validation, deployment, and sustaining of Microsoft's AI scale-up switch platforms.

+ Drive network switch requirements, specifications, and technical decisions based on AI workload and system requirements.

+ Lead switch vendor selection, RFIs/RFQs/RFPs, technical evaluations, and supplier engagement strategy.

+ Own switch hardware development including ASICs, Ser Des, retimers, connectors, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, and power design.

+ Drive development of next-generation optical scale-up solutions including OCI, XPO, CPO, fiber management, and optical interconnect technologies.

+ Partner with software teams on SONiC, control plane, telemetry, diagnostics, fleet management, and operational readiness.

+ Lead switch bring-up, validation, DVT/PVT, system integration, qualification, and production readiness activities.

+ Own integration of scale-up switches into compute racks, switch racks, pods, and AI clusters.

+ Drive ODM/JDM development models and manage technical engagement with switch vendors, ODMs, and ecosystem partners.

+ Lead cross-functional teams spanning networking, systems, silicon, optics, firmware, software, operations, and manufacturing.

+ Drive system-level optimization across performance, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, power, cost, and time-to-market.

+ Serve as the technical lead for Microsoft's next-generation AI scale-up switch solutions and networking platforms.

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience

+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience

+ OR equivalent experience.

** Other Requirements:*
* + Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screening:

+ Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position is required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or…