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Senior Network Systems Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Oct 14, 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. We are looking to hire a Senior Network Systems Engineer to be a part of the team. As a Senior Network Systems Engineer team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver Network hardware designs from concept to data center deployment. Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft Azure's services teams, cross-discipline design teams focusing on the functional interfaces and developing scale up and scale out AI/ML infrastructure rack designs. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing networking hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud to support AI/ML development. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art accelerator hardware solutions. Participate in architectural discussions and evaluate networking performance required to meet the demands of AI/ML workloads Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integration plans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations. Define system behavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations. Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations. Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack. Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability, and performance. Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner. | |