The Azure High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence (HPC & AI) product team drives the hardware roadmap, software, and services that enable our users to run technical computing workloads in Azure - HPC simulations, AI & machine learning, remote visualization, and immersive gaming experiences. We are responsible for providing Azure customers with supercomputer-class capabilities to accelerate their research, drive competitive differentiation, and finding answers to some of the most difficult questions of science, industry, and entertainment.
Customer Solutions and Innovation (CSI) team is part of HPC and AI product team in Azure Engineering and focuses on in-bound product feedback born from hands-on customer engagements. CSI team works closely with important customers, independent solution vendors (ISV) and system integrators on some of the largest and most interesting development projects for Microsoft. From these engagements, the team extracts patterns, issues, and requirements that help drive positive change in our platform and product offerings.This is a great opportunity to have direct impact on Microsoft's Big Computing and AI cloud offerings as well as our broader platform strategy. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager.
This is an exciting time for HPC and AI, as they are undergoing a massive shift. AI technologies are being merged with existing HPC approaches, and both are moving to the cloud. At this critical juncture, the team is expanding and is looking for a leader for team of architects and hands-on engineers leading engagements, and projects focused on our Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) scenarios running and optimizing AI training and inferencing workloads at large scale [think Supercomputer Scale].
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Responsibilities
Impact and grow the Azure AI/ML business by supporting the success of some of the most important customers and partners, driving innovation and thought leadership
Be responsible for engineering execution. Work with our key partners to plan and prioritize what is important for your team and our organization.
Represent your teams' work, present technical challenges, solutions, and guidance to audiences including customer technical and business decision makers, executives, conference attendees, and internal engineering leadership.
Drive insights from these customer engagements to influence future product releases.
Help product owners understand and prioritize customer feedback for the improvement of products and services based on the customer projects your team will be delivering.
Develop, grow, and mentor engineers to reach higher potential.
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
4+ years people management experience.
3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements:
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with one or more - Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, NVIDIA AI/ML platform.
Solid understanding of AI architecture and requirements for running multi-GPU and multi-node training and inferencing workloads [processor technology, networks, memory components etc.]
Good interpersonal skills and ability to foster positive relationships within and outside the team.
Demonstrated ability to engage with customers and partners to understand their business needs and priorities.
Experience with AI workloads (preferably with a mix of customer facing delivering solution architecture; technical lead; or developer roles).
Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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
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