New 
Principal Technical Program Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft Azure's vision to be "The World's Computer". We are the Firmware team, enabling a secure, reliable, and most trusted cloud experience to customers and partners worldwide. In Firmware COE (Center of Excellence) organization, you will provide overarching technical direction to the team of firmware and software engineering. You will take an active role and partner with internal peer teams and external partners to ensure highly available, fully secure software and firmware solutions to enable the AI datacenter servers. We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Technical Program Manager with a track record in leading complex software & firmware platform initiatives and strategy for Azure Infrastructure. You will help us define and develop technical and strategic solutions to meet the immediate and long-term needs of our services that form a critical part of Azure datacenter. You can define Microsoft Azure requirements to our internal and external partners, as well as coordinate collaborative efforts with various internal Azure Engineering teams. You have experience in managing data center server and rack infrastructure, excellent communication skills to drive technical subjects with multiple internal/external partners teams. As a seasoned technical program manager, you have a desire and ability to understand customer needs and a willingness to develop holistic and data-driven approaches to product solutions that delight and exceed their expectations. You have a very solid understanding of software development lifecycle, firmware and hardware integration experience, networking knowledge, the ability to apply these fundamentals to 'cloud-readiness, and most importantly - an unyielding passion for creating products that customers will fall in love with. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record translating the needs of a highly diverse set of data center use cases into a differentiated set of supercomputing-class systems, solutions, and experiences, and apply them to Azure's underlying infrastructure systems. At Microsoft, we immensely value culture, mentorship, and act as One Team. This is an opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and grow your existing project/program management experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft's customers.
ResponsibilitiesAs a higher leveled principal technical PM, you will work with the engineering team and hardware teams to ensure software and firmware plans are well defined and incorporated in the plan. Work with our HW New Program Initiative team on new HW SKUs under development, and ensure FW development, validation and roll out plan is full proof. As principal technical PM, you will work closely with your engineering counterparts to be responsible for the cutting-edge AI, next generation compute SKUs execution. Define and develop vendor agnostic requirements for our innovative hardware solutions that powers Azure through active engagement with internal/external partners. Partner with other TPMs, Architects, and engineering managers to drive this standardization within Microsoft and across the silicon industry. Drive development teams to deliver features by agile execution across sprints, backlogs, milestones, and lead continuous planning efforts.Oversee the different FW team plans and deliverables.Develop requirement specs and PM functional specs for new features.Manage semester planning, engineering sprint and backlog with Engineering teams. Work with external and internal partners (Silicon Vendors, ODM, OEM, Hardware, Azure Service teams etc.) to drive Microsoft Azure requirement and coordinate development efforts with different Azure and Microsoft Engineering teams. Responsible for bringing in systematic FW development practice to the team. Communicate with multiple internal/external partners teams located in different places in the world to drive programs. | |