Principal Technical Program Manager | Microsoft Careers

What you'll do

• Translate early-stage AI research into shippable cloud capabilities, shaping product roadmaps with researchers and Azure engineering teams.
• Design technical solutions spanning models, systems, and hardware, making data-driven recommendations to address trade-offs and risks.
• Define success criteria for moving research prototypes to general availability, ensuring alignment among MSR, Azure, and supplier stakeholders.
• Own the program structure end-to-end, managing roadmap, schedule, staging plans, and governance across multi-team efforts.
• Validate use cases against live workloads, instrument performance metrics at cloud AI scale, and bring customer feedback back to researchers.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (engineering, computer science, physics) and 6+ years experience in technical roles.
• Master’s or PhD in a relevant field with 6+ years experience in engineering or product development.
• Basic understanding of optics/photonics for engaging researchers and suppliers on technical trade-offs.
• Knowledge of networking and interconnects including datacenter networking and high-speed interconnects.
• Familiarity with hardware/system simulation tools and advanced packaging techniques.
• Effective communication skills to justify technical assumptions to diverse audiences.
• Experience working on research or industry projects related to AI systems design.