Senior Platform PnP Engineer

Job Title

Senior Platform PnP Engineer

Role Summary

Senior individual contributor on Microsoft's Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE) team, focused on platform power, performance, and efficiency for next-generation AI compute platforms used in Azure datacenters. The role leads technical strategy, cross-functional delivery, and performance optimization across silicon, firmware, OS, and datacenter systems.

Experience Level

Senior-level. See Education Requirements for degree/experience combinations; 7+ years of relevant experience is listed as preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver platform-level power and performance leadership for AI compute systems and drive cross-functional initiatives.

• Lead platform power and performance strategy to maximize performance-per-watt, scalability, efficiency, and TCO.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship; lead cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Partner across architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, validation, OS, manufacturing, and customer engineering to define and deliver platform solutions.
• Drive silicon and platform architecture for workload characterization, power management, DVFS/frequency/voltage optimization, memory subsystem efficiency, and accelerator utilization.
• Analyze system interactions (power delivery, thermal, firmware, OS, datacenter infra) to improve performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Lead power-performance characterization, profiling, and benchmarking using customer workloads, AI training/inference, and synthetic benchmarks.
• Influence silicon and platform roadmaps through workload analysis and identification of performance and efficiency opportunities.
• Communicate technical strategies, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineering leadership and executives.

Requirements

Key baseline requirements and desirable qualifications (education details are in Education Requirements).

• Demonstrated technical engineering experience in compute or AI systems/platforms (see Education Requirements for required degree/experience combinations).
• Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and other security screening requirements.
• Willingness to travel up to ~25% as required.
• Nice-to-have: experience with silicon bring-up, workload profiling, benchmarking, power/performance optimization, liquid cooling, and datacenter-scale operations.
• Nice-to-have: experience working across hardware, firmware, OS, silicon architecture, and validation teams to deliver complex platform solutions.
• Nice-to-have: experience with custom silicon or AI accelerator development and hyperscale cloud infrastructure.

Education Requirements

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field plus 3+ years technical engineering experience; OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field plus 5+ years technical engineering experience; OR equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Microsoft

Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, United States

Microsoft is a global technology company that develops and sells software, services, devices, and solutions. Known for its Windows operating system, Office suite, and Azure cloud platform, Microsoft aims to empower individuals and organizations around the world to achieve more. The company fosters a culture of innovation and inclusion, focusing on delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners globally.