Software Engineer II

Microsoft is seeking passionate and innovative software engineers for their HPC/AI team, focused on building the next-generation distributed AI supercomputer. The role involves designing and developing networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training, ensuring high performance and low latency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize networking solutions tailored for large-scale AI training infrastructure. Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency, and low-jitter communication frameworks for distributed systems
• Benchmark, analyze, and enhance the scalability and reliability of networking systems to handle petabyte-scale data transfer
• Debug and resolve complex networking issues in large-scale, high-performance environments
• Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new AI trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in software design and development
• 1+ years experience on Distributed Systems
• 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
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience on High Performance Computing / Machine Learning middleware and Communication Runtime
• 2+ years experience on Hardware-Software co-design
• 2+ years experience on Profiling and Performance Analysis Tools - Problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
• Familiarity with high performance networking hardware/architecture