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Principal Hardware Architect

7 months ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Microsoft Full time

Overview

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 and 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.

We are looking for a Principal Hardware Architect with a focus on emerging optical technologies. The candidate is expected to evaluate alternative optical technologies and identify innovative ways of applying them to new systems architectures in the next 3-5 year timeframe. Optical technologies in scope include optical transceivers, optical integration into ASIC packages, optical circuit switches, lasers etc.

While there is an emphasis on deep understanding of optical components, the candidate will also contribute to Microsoft’s high performance interconnect strategy across multiple application segments including AI, HPC and Analytics. The candidate will propose detailed POCs and ensure alignment across various stakeholders on the value of the POCs. This is a technical leadership role - however, the candidate should be willing to conduct experiments in a hands-on manner with the POCs.

Qualifications

Minimum of a Masters Degree with industry experience specializing in optical technologies or optical networking. A PhD with industry experience is preferred with research publications in the same area of specialization. Familiarity with datacenter-class optical module technologies such as QSFP/OSFP form factor pluggable modules or emerging Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) or Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) approaches. Experience in architecting optical transceivers for target metrics such as physical dimensions, power (or energy efficiency), bandwidth density, temperature sensitivity, BER and failure rates. Expertise with optical transceivers ingredients such as EIC, PIC, drivers, TIAs, photo-detectors, modulators and lasers. Solid technical writing and presentation skills with a demonstrated record of academic publications / industry position papers.

Responsibilities

Identify optical technologies, quantify their value and prioritize them for future datacenter usages Propose POC / prototyping frameworks for the rigorous evaluation of optical technologies. Engage with optical technology vendors and conduct detailed analysis of competing technologies. Educate / disseminate technology directions to Microsoft’s internal stakeholders on optical foundations and fundamental directions. Represent Microsoft’s directions to the industry and academia through leading conferences. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect