Senior Performance Architect
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Oregon, Hillsboro | |
 Jul 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, theComputeSilicon and ManufacturingOrganization(CSME) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.CSMEis at the forefront of innovation and application of AI to silicon development workflows. We are looking forseniorengineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for aSenior Performance Architectto join the team.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop performance modeling methodologies by creating and owning System on Chip (SOC) / Intellectual Property (IP) cycle-accurate/approximate performance models and analysis tools in C++ and Python. Use workload information and working with Micro-architects and Register Transfer Level (RTL) team to identify performance bottlenecks. Collaborate across functionally to propose architectural/microarchitectural changes and provide the required quantitative justification. Leverage AI tools and infrastructure for comprehensive performance modeling, including coding, performance tuning, and analysis. Verify the correlation of the SOC performance models to the RTL implementation. Work closely with the product architecture System On Chip (SOC) architecture teams, IP architecture, to ensure our SOC and IPs enable performant, efficient, and industry-leading systems. Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion | |