Principal Optical Network System Engineer

Microsoft 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.

• Define and drive networking architectures for AI training and inference platforms.
• Lead the integration, bring-up, and deployment of network hardware technologies.
• Define and execute validation strategies for AI networking infrastructure.
• Analyze and optimize AI fabric performance across distributed training and inference workloads.
• Drive qualification and deployment of next-generation networking technologies.

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience with fiber optics.
• 8+ years of experience designing, testing, validating, or troubleshooting optical interconnects.