Member of Technical Staff, Capacity & Efficiency Infrastructure - MAI Superintelligence Team
 Microsoft | |
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 21, 2026 | |
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Overview
Microsoft AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Capacity & Efficiency Infrastructure,to help us improve manage, and improve the efficiency of, our compute fleet.We'reseeking someone who brings an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The ideal candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will actively contribute to the development of AI models powering our innovative products. Expect to wear multiple hats and work across engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span model architecture, data curation, training and inference infrastructure, evaluation protocols, alignment and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and many other exciting topics at thecutting edgeof AI. Microsoft AI is building the training infrastructure that powers frontier-scale models and advances research toward humanist superintelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff - Capacity & Efficiency, you will contribute to a fast-moving codebase that enables training at an unprecedented scale. This role will require building software and mathematical models for measuring the effectiveness of our capacity usage and then developing tools and techniques to help us improve. This will require you to partner with ML researchers to scale up the latest research recipes, implement new forms of distributed training parallelism, and ensure the reliability and performance of thousands of GPUs across our supercomputing fleet. Profiling, benchmarking, debugging, and fine-grained optimization are core to this role, demanding both engineering rigor and creativity. Microsoft Superintelligence Team MicrosoftSuperintelligence team's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployees,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. This role is part of Microsoft AI's Superintelligence Team. The MAIST is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence-ultra-capable systems thatremaincontrollable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanityremainsfirmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs thatbenefitsociety-advancing science, education, and global well-being. We'realso fortunate to partner with incredible productteamsgiving our models the chance to reach billions of users and createimmensepositive impact. Ifyou'rea brilliant,highly-ambitiousandlow egoindividual,you'llfit right in-comeand join us as we work on our next generation of models! Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployees,we come together with a growth mindset, innovate toempowerothers, andcollaborate 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. By applying to this Mountain View, CA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco area and in office 4 days a week. Responsibilities
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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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. Find additional benefits and pay information here: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. | |