New 
Software Engineer II: HPC & AI Benchmarking
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure is building accelerated supercomputers at unprecedented scales to facilitate the massive computational demands of the world's leading High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workflows. The Specialized Workflows team is responsible for creating representative HPC & AI workflows for these systems, measuring and optimizing their performance, and ensuring they meet the high expectations of Azure's customers. The team also publishes blog posts and research papers in leading conferences and submits results to MLPerf and the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.As a Software Engineer in this team, you will be responsible for creating and running benchmarks and representative workflows, and analyzing the performance of Azure's supercomputers. You will also work on creating automation to run these workflows as part of system validation for our largest supercomputers.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.
ResponsibilitiesWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) benchmarks, workflows, and cluster validation tests.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for benchmarks, workflows, and validation tests with little oversight.Creates and implements benchmark, workflow, and validation code, reusing code as applicable.Collaborates with partner teams to identify and resolve issues with Azure supercomputers that are found during benchmarking and validation.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |