Principal Technical Program Management Specialist – Future of AI Infrastructure
Core
Partner with MSR researchers, Azure engineering, and vendors to design technical solutions spanning models, systems, and hardware for AI infrastructure.
Role type
Principal Technical Program Management Specialist (AI Infrastructure)
Builds
AI infrastructure solutions, research prototypes to general availability, and next-generation platform investments.
Domain
AI systems design, hardware/software integration, optical systems, datacenter networking.
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
cross-functional project management, data-driven decision making, roadmap and schedule planning, stakeholder alignment, performance and reliability metrics analysis, use case validation against live workloads, technical trade-off analysis, program governance.
Preferred skills
optics and/or photonics understanding, hardware/system simulation or modeling, advanced packaging knowledge, co-packaged optics expertise, memory hierarchies knowledge, networking and interconnects knowledge.
Technologies
cloud AI scale environments, datacenter networking, high-speed interconnects, fabrics.
Responsibilities
Design technical solutions spanning models, systems, and hardware; surface trade-offs and risks; define success criteria and launch standards; own end-to-end program structure including roadmap and governance; validate use cases against live workloads; instrument performance metrics; bring customer signals back to shape platform investments.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic oversight