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The Principal AI Silicon Architect joins the AI Silicon Architecture team within the Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering group. This role involves owning the end-to-end power architecture for high-power AI accelerator SoCs, encompassing the SoC, package, board, and system levels. Key responsibilities include defining power-management architectures, including DVFS, clock and power gating, and workload-aware power management. The architect must manage high-power operating conditions, transient behavior, and thermal constraints while translating product requirements into silicon-level power budgets. The role requires deep expertise in power integrity, voltage droop, and power delivery network design for high-performance datacenter-class silicon like GPUs or HPC processors. Candidates must navigate complex tradeoffs between performance, power, reliability, cost, and implementation complexity across multi-die or chiplet architectures to optimize system-level efficiency.
Own the end-to-end power architecture for high-power AI accelerator SoCs across the SoC, package, board, and system.
Define SoC and package-level power-management architectures including DVFS, clock gating, and workload-aware power management.
Design architectures for high-power operating conditions to manage workload power excursions, peak power, and thermal constraints.
Translate workload and product requirements into system-level power budgets, design targets, and architectural requirements.
Define SoC-to-system interfaces and control mechanisms for power, thermal, and platform management.
Drive architectural tradeoffs across performance, power, thermal limits, reliability, area, cost, and implementation complexity.
Provide technical leadership through the development lifecycle including architecture specification, design reviews, and silicon bring-up.
What we're looking for
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of technical engineering experience.
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Must provide proof of citizenship, US residency, or other protected status for export control regulations.
Significant industry experience in SoC power architecture, power delivery, or power management for high-performance SoCs (preferred).
Demonstrated experience architecting and optimizing power delivery across silicon, package, board, and power supply levels (preferred).
Experience with AI accelerators, GPUs, HPC processors, or other high-power datacenter-class silicon (preferred).
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