Computing Engineer

Position: High Performance Computing Engineer
** Overview*
* Microsoft AI is looking for experienced  
** Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Engineers
** to help build and scale the infrastructure that trains our frontier models and powers the next evolution of our personal AI, Copilot.

This role offers the unique opportunity to work on some of the largest scale supercomputers in the world - a rare chance to operate at such a significant scale.

** Microsoft Superintelligence Team*
* Microsoft Superintelligence team's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

This role is part of Microsoft AI's Superintelligence Team. The MAIST is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence-ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs that benefit society-advancing science, education, and global well-being.

We're also fortunate to partner with incredible product teams giving our models the chance to reach billions of users and create immense positive impact. If you're a brilliant, highly-ambitious and low ego individual, you'll fit right in-come and join us as we work on our next generation of models!  

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

By applying to this Mountain View, CA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco area and in office 4 days a week. 

** Responsibilities*
* + Design, operate, and maintain large-scale HPC environments, drawing on hands-on engineering experience in production settings.

+ Own the deployment, configuration, and day-to-day operation of HPC schedulers (e.g., SLURM, Kubernetes), ensuring reliable and efficient job scheduling at scale.

+ Serve as a technical owner for at least one core HPC domain (GPU compute, high-performance storage, networking, or similar), including ongoing maintenance, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of massive clusters.

+ Develop and maintain automation and tooling using Bash and/or Python to improve cluster reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.

+ Partner closely with researchers and engineers to support their workloads, troubleshoot cluster usage issues, and triage failed or underperforming jobs to resolution.

+ Drive work forward independently by navigating ambiguity and technical roadblocks, delivering incremental improvements that get capabilities into users' hands quickly.

+ Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven product development environment, balancing stability with rapid iteration and experimentation.

+ Embody our  Culture  and  Values . 

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Do you have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with deploying or operating on-premise or cloud high-performance clusters, AND 4+ years experience working with high-scale training clusters (ex. working with frameworks/tools such as nvidia Infini Band clusters, SLURM, Kubernetes, Ray, etc.), AND 4+ years experience building scalable services on top of public cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP,

+ OR equivalent experience?

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* + Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with deploying or operating on-premise or cloud high-performance clusters, AND 6+ years experience…