Overview‍

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The Azure High-Performance Computing/Artifical Intelligence (HPC/AI) team is looking for talented individuals to help drive networking for the largest AI training supercomputers in the world. As a Product Manager II in AI Supercomputing networking, you will work with AI compute product managers, frontier AI model developers, datacenter design and operations experts, networking vendors. You will help the largest AI supercomputing customers train the most advanced models powering some of the most widely used consumer and enterprise software services. In doing so, you will accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your practical AI supercomputing skills, and become adept at working with and across multiple teams of colleagues and stakeholders for the world's foremost AI Cloud, Microsoft Azure. This is a flexible work opportunity for which a candidate can partially work from home.

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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.

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‍Responsibilities

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• Drive, track, and publish success criteria for backend networking of ultra large scale AI supercomputers. Your primary objective, shared with colleagues and partner teams, is to drive maximum operational uptime and AI workload throughput of some of the largest supercomputers on the planet.
• Identify leading and/or unique points of failure affecting your primary goal and associated KPIs, and drive remediations and roadmap changes to address those issues.
• Work across and build trust among a V-team of supercomputing product groups, datacenter site operators, quality control specialists, vendors, business leaders, and customers to achieve your objectives.

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‍Qualifications‍

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

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• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

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Other Requirements:

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  - Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

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• Bachelor's Degree AND 5 years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR eqivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience in operating production supercomputers.

5+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).

• Familiarity with RoCE v2, InfiniBand, UCX, MPI, NCCL, RCCL, and distributed memory compute workloads.
• Ability to work overlapping hours with East Coast teams (EST).

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