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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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As a Senior AI Software Architect in Microsoft’s AHSI team, you will play a pivotal role in enabling and optimizing large-scale AI models for Maia accelerators. Your day-to-day responsibilities include porting and integrating models using frameworks like PyTorch, ONNX, vLLM, and SGLang, while applying advanced techniques such as KV cache quantization and parallelism strategies to enhance performance. You will collaborate closely with hardware architects and kernel developers to co-design solutions that address complex business challenges at scale, ensuring efficient model deployment and inference across diverse interconnects like NVLink and PCIe. This role requires expertise in PyTorch, model optimization, and distributed training concepts, along with a strong background in AI inference stacks and Triton kernels.