The Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research will focus on developing next-generation AI systems by defining cross-layer architectures that enhance inference throughput, energy efficiency, and hardware utilization. This role involves collaboration across various teams including AI infrastructure, silicon engineering, and hardware architecture. The researcher will lead efforts from workload analysis to architectural modeling and prototype evaluation. The position emphasizes innovation and the application of emerging AI workloads in a supportive and inclusive environment.

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field AND 7+ years related research experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field AND 9+ years related research experience
• Equivalent experience in a relevant field

• Lead end-to-end AI system, memory, and hardware architecture, identifying cross-layer opportunities across workloads, runtimes, memory systems, and hardware.
• Develop architectural abstractions and mechanisms that connect AI model execution behavior with platform capabilities.
• Analyze emerging AI workloads, including computation, memory access, communication, data movement, bandwidth, latency, capacity, and power requirements.
• Drive pre-silicon architectural exploration, performance modeling, feasibility analysis, and implementation pathfinding for next-generation AI hardware.
• Evaluate trade-offs across performance, bandwidth, latency, power, thermal limits, silicon area, packaging, and total cost of ownership.
• Build analytical models, simulators, prototypes, and experimental systems to validate architectural hypotheses.
• Collaborate across research and product engineering, publish research, mentor technical contributors, and transfer promising concepts toward deployment.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.