Principal Software Engineer

About the role

The AI Frameworks (AIFx) Networking & Systems Tools (NeST) organisation develops foundational system software that enables Microsoft’s Maia accelerator platforms across pre-silicon development, hardware bring-up, cloud integration and production cloud infrastructure that enables AI accelerators to operate reliably and efficiently at cloud scale.

What you'll do

• Architect and develop distributed control-plane services for provisioning, orchestration and lifecycle management of AI accelerator infrastructure
• Design scalable systems for state management, health monitoring, reconciliation and fault recovery
• Build host and device management software connecting cloud infrastructure with operating systems, drivers, firmware and accelerator devices
• Develop infrastructure supporting accelerator virtualisation, device assignment, isolation and resource management
• Integrate accelerator infrastructure with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• C++
• C#
• Go
• C
• Rust
• Kubernetes
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Linux
• Root cause analysis
• Reconciliation