Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer (Principal) | Remote/Hybrid

About the Role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) builds the infrastructure and foundational technologies that power the Intelligent Cloud. Within Hardware Systems, we develop AI-native silicon and hyperscale platforms built for next-generation frontier AI models. The MAIA platform is a key part of this effort, and we’re looking for a Principal engineer to help advance the toolchain that enables accelerator performance and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and improve AI accelerator tools and engineering workflows for silicon and hyperscale systems
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and software teams to translate platform requirements into practical developer tooling
• Drive performance, reliability, and usability improvements across the toolchain used by internal and partner teams
• Analyze system and workload behavior to identify bottlenecks and propose technical solutions
• Contribute to technical planning, architecture decisions, and long-term roadmap execution

Requirements

• Strong experience building performance-oriented developer tools, SDKs, or system tooling
• Proficiency with one or more programming languages commonly used in systems and tooling (e.g., C++, Python, or similar)
• Experience working with AI/accelerator ecosystems, compilers, runtimes, or performance profiling/analysis
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines (hardware, software, and infrastructure) and communicate effectively
• Demonstrated principal-level impact through complex, cross-team technical delivery

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical cloud infrastructure and AI-native platforms
• Collaborate with a high-impact engineering organization supporting global services
• Professional growth through challenging technical problems and cross-functional ownership