Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Workloads and Benchmarking Team Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is at the forefront of designing, deploying, and managing advanced supercomputing platforms within the Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) & AI organization. As the Workloads and Benchmarking Team Lead, you will own the strategy and execution of benchmarking for Azure HPC and AI infrastructure, combining technical leadership with people management.
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Responsibilities
Develop and maintain deep expertise in current and emerging HPC and AI workloads, including large-scale training, inference, and specialized scientific and enterprise use cases
Define and own the end-to-end benchmarking strategy for Azure HPC and AI infrastructure, ensuring benchmarks are representative, reproducible, and aligned with real customer workloads and industry standards
Lead performance benchmarking across flagship HPC and AI SKUs, spanning compute, networking, storage, and system software stacks, and analyze results to identify performance characteristics and optimization opportunities
Drive Azure participation in industry-recognized benchmarking initiatives, including MLPerf and Top500, coordinating submissions and ensuring methodological rigor and compliance
Publish and publicize benchmarking results through technical blog posts, whitepapers, conference talks, and industry presentations to position Azure as a leader in HPC and AI performance
Coach, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, setting clear technical direction, fostering professional growth, and ensuring delivery against organizational priorities
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR equivalent experience
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
4+ years people management experience
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