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, OneDrive, 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.
Microsoft's Hardware Systems organization is developing AI-native silicon and system-level solutions to power the next generation of frontier AI models. The MAIA platform combines custom accelerators, advanced networking technologies, large-scale distributed infrastructure, and cloud-scale software to deliver industry-leading AI training and inference capabilities.
The Platform Systems Engineering PSE team is seeking a Sr. AI Network Systems Engineer to develop, integrate, validate, and deploy networking solutions for next-generation MAIA AI systems.
This role works at the intersection of networking hardware, custom silicon, AI infrastructure, and hyperscale systems. You will collaborate across architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, software, validation, manufacturing, and Azure infrastructure teams to deliver high-performance scale-up and scale-out networking for AI training and inference platforms. The role spans switches, NICs, PHYs, MAC/PCS, high-speed SerDes, copper and optical interconnects, and rack-scale networking infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
AI Networking Architecture & System Development
Develop and integrate scale-up and scale-out networking solutions for MAIA AI training and inference systems.
Translate AI/ML workload requirements into system-level networking requirements.
Evaluate architecture tradeoffs across performance, reliability, power, scalability, serviceability, and cost.
Network Hardware Integration & Bring-Up
Drive integration, bring-up, and qualification of switches, NICs, PHYs, MAC/PCS, SerDes, optics, cables, and backplane technologies.
Collaborate across silicon, firmware, hardware, software, and OS teams to resolve complex integration issues.
Partner with technology vendors, ODMs, and CMs through qualification and production readiness.
