Principal Software Engineer

Requirements:

• Drive our team efforts around optimization of LLM inference and training on GPUs.
• Quickly adapt to unfamiliar code and services.
• Lead an expertise area, implementation in services, and thought evolution driven by experimentation.
• Regularly communicate and collaborate across team and organization boundaries.
• Show independent drive to advance your area of ownership while applying it broadly, contributing to our stream of engagements across our team.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Nice to Haves:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with one or more of the following technologies:
• GPU or Tensor Processors, especially NVIDIA.
• Distributed Systems
• Performance, Scalability, and Optimization
• PyTorch, CUDA, TensorFlow, Onyx Languages
• Hardware platform optimization, measurement, and characterization
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Interpersonal strengths a successful candidate demonstrates, including:
• Clear and concise cross team communication.
• Facilitating knowledge transfer within and between teams.
• Project organization, planning, and tracking.
• Self-motivation while encouraging team momentum.
• Additional experiences of interest include:
• Working with Finance, including on amortization, depreciations, NPV, operational and capital expenditure.
• Adapting cutting edge research into engineering practice.
• Green technology, carbon reduction.
• Engineering management and planning of projects encompassing large-cardinality sub-projects.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Perks and Benefits:

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to various characteristics.
• If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
• Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.