Principal Software Architect

We are the Deep Learning Platform team delivering the cutting-edge infrastructure in Microsoft AI. This is a core engineering team dealing with tens of thousands production servers, sub-millisecond latency and millions of Request Per Second (RPS) traffic. We develop advanced vector search algorithm, optimize deep learning model kernels, and build end to end large scale distributed deep learning serving system. Our system also leverage popular open source components including ONNX, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, g-RPC, etc. We work on wide range of CPU and GPU hardware for performance serving.

We are expanding our established deep learning vector databases service to largest scale in industry, in order to serve the growing demand of web search and retrieval for copilot. To do that, we are looking for a Principal Software Architect, Microsoft AI on performance analysis, key components scaling up, distributed system debugging, and new feature/algorithm development. The project collaborates with Microsoft Research team deeply. This is a great opportunity to work on a large production system with cutting-edge technology innovation.

 

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Responsibilities

• Work on algorithms and methodologies in close collaboration with our research team, including problems in such domains as web-scale search, enterprise search, and document/multi-media search.
• Design and develop these search methodologies into production.
• Explore novel research topics in vector databases and deep learning that may inform our product strategy in the medium and long term.
• Work with customers to design solutions to meet customer their requirement.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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. 

 

Other Requirements:

 

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Theory and practice on the approximate nearest neighborhood search and the experience on ANN open source, like HNSW, DiskANN, SPTAG/SPANN, is a big plus.
• Experience on the relevance algorithm and query intention analysis on web search retrieval is a big plus.
  
• Experience on distributed systems (e.g., communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming).
  
• Experience on high performance computing (e.g., cache/memory optimization, query optimization, performance benchmark and debugging)
  
• Experience on deep learning model and large language model (LLM) serving.

 

 

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

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 February 19, 2025. 

 

 

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