[Hiring] Principal Technical Program Manager, AI Supercomputer Operations @Microsoft

Role Description

The world’s most advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads depend on infrastructure that must operate reliably at unprecedented scale. Our team operates Microsoft’s largest AI supercomputers, partnering with strategic AI customers and engineering teams to deliver the reliability and operational excellence required for large-scale AI training and inference workloads.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, AI Supercomputer Operations, you will lead the end-to-end operational programs for some of Microsoft’s most critical AI training supercomputers. You will serve as a trusted operational partner to strategic AI customers, bringing together customer priorities, infrastructure health, engineering execution, and business commitments to ensure training workloads run reliably.

This is a highly cross-functional and customer-facing role spanning:

• Infrastructure availability
• Training reliability
• Incident management
• Repair and recovery
• Planned maintenance
• Operational readiness

You will partner across multiple engineering teams, Business Development, and datacenter teams to manage operational risk and translate customer requirements and operational challenges into investments that improve infra reliability and scalability.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
• There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company Description

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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