Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?  

Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.   

Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide, and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.   

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services.  This role is for a Principal Power to Perf Efficiency Improvement Architect with a background in CPU/GPU SOC architectures, performance efficiency improvement modes, and general SOC/platform hardware design.   

The candidate should have solid skills in the areas of power management, performance analysis, and being able to experiment by changing (HW, FW [eg.BIOS] or SW [eg. drivers]) to prove the ideas/solutions and by running necessary workloads to show the subsequent perf-to-pwr improvements. The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: CPU/GPU architectures, PCIe architecture and cloud system/platform architecture. 

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