Senior Software Engineer
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Location: Redmond, WA 98052
Description:
The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft develops AI software that enables running AI models everywhere, from world's fastest AI supercomputers, to servers, desktops, mobile phones, IoT devices, and internet browsers. We collaborate with our hardware teams and partners to build the software stacks for novel AI accelerators. We work closely with ML researchers and developers to optimize and scale out model training and inference.
The team operates at the intersection of AI algorithmic innovation, purpose-built AI hardware, systems, and software. We are a cross-discipline team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative network abstractions for large-scale distributed AI training and inferencing. Additionally, you will work on developing advanced networking protocols specifically tailored for efficient AI workloads.
This is a technical role that demands hands-on software design and development skills as well as networking firmware/driver development skills. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in advanced networking solutions for large-scale distributed workloads. An entrepreneurial mindset and quick adaptation to new networking ideas and concepts through experimentation are essential.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 6, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.
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The team operates at the intersection of AI algorithmic innovation, purpose-built AI hardware, systems, and software. We are a cross-discipline team of highly capable and motivated people with a collaborative and inclusive culture.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative network abstractions for large-scale distributed AI training and inferencing. Additionally, you will work on developing advanced networking protocols specifically tailored for efficient AI workloads.
This is a technical role that demands hands-on software design and development skills as well as networking firmware/driver development skills. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in advanced networking solutions for large-scale distributed workloads. An entrepreneurial mindset and quick adaptation to new networking ideas and concepts through experimentation are essential.
Responsibilities:
- Apply strong engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable networking abstractions.
- Orchestrate large scale networking experiments to measure and analyze network performance of AI workloads, and work with network architects to innovate on network protocols.
- Collaborate broadly across multiple disciplines from hardware designers to ML developers
- Perform software development in C/C++, Python, and other languages.
- Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables.
- Embody our culture and values .
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in the computer networking domain (networking firmware/drivers, network protocols, etc.)
- 4+ years of software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with C/C++
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Master'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 Bachelor'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.
- 1+ years' experience with Python
- A deep technical background and solid foundation in computer networks, software engineering principles and architecture design
- Intellectual curiosity and passion about learning new technologies
- Exposure to Deep Neural Network training and inference and experience in one or more deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, ONNX, etc)
- Great cross-team collaboration skills and the desire to collaborate in a team of researchers and developers
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 6, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.
#AIFX#
#AIPLATFORM#
#AIPLATREF#
#SHPE24MSFT#