AI Reliability Engineer, HPC

As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents applications services and infrastructure. Its also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all consumers businesses developers so that everyone can realize its benefits.

Were looking for an experiencedAI Reliability Engineer to join our High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure this role youll blend software engineering and systems engineering to keep our large-scale distributed AI infrastructure reliable and efficient. Youll ensure that AI systems stay efficient and reliable with very high uptimes.

Microsoft AI Our mission is to build AI that amplifies human potential and empowers people around the world. We strive to deliver breakthroughs that advance science education productivity and global well-being. Were also fortunate to partner with incredible product teams giving our models the chance to reach billions of users and create immense positive impact. If youre a brilliant highly-ambitious and low ego individual youll fit right income and join us as we work on our next generation of models! MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S. country-specific) of that location. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Reliability & Availability: Ensure uptime resiliency and fault tolerance of HPC clusters powering MAI model training and inference.
• Observability: Design and maintain monitoring alerting and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into all aspects of HPC systems including GPU clusters storage and networking.
• Automation & Tooling: Build automation for deployments incident response scaling and failover in CPUGPU environments.
• Incident Management: Lead on-call rotations troubleshoot production issues conduct blameless postmortems and drive continuous improvements.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure data privacy compliance and secure operations across model training and serving environments.
• Collaboration: Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.
• Embody our CultureandValues.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 4 years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Infrastructure EngineeringOR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 2 years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience with Kubernetes Docker container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines for ML training or inference workloads.
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP including infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
• Programming or scripting experience in Python Go or Bash.
• Experience with distributed systems networking storage and high-performance computing (HPC).
• Experience operating GPU clusters and workload schedulers for ML/AI workloads.
• Experience with ML training or inference pipelines.
• Experience with capacity planning and cost optimization for GPU-based infrastructure.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is 93500.00 - 161800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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