Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer

Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer | Microsoft Careers Skip to main content Microsoft Careers Careers Careers Search Search jobs Sign in Single PositionView All JobsPrincipal AI Accelerator Tools Development EngineerUnited States, California, Mountain View +2 moreApply nowAdd to cartFind out how well you match with this jobUpload your resumeJob descriptionCompany and benefitsJob number200043759Date postedJul 16, 2026Work site3 days / week in-officeTravelLess than 25%ProfessionSoftware EngineeringDisciplineSoftware EngineeringRole typeIndividual ContributorEmployment typeFull-TimeOverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. Microsoft's Hardware Systems organization is developing AI-native silicon and hyperscale systems designed to power the next generation of frontier AI models. The MAIA platform combines custom silicon, high-performance networking, advanced compiler technologies, and large-scale system infrastructure to enable industry-leading AI training and inference. The Platform Systems Engineering (PSE) team is seeking a Principal AI Accelerator Tools Development Engineer to lead the development of next-generation stress, validation, and performance tooling for MAIA AI accelerator platforms. In this role, you will build software frameworks, stress workloads, and validation tools that exercise every layer of the AI stack, from hardware execution engines and memory subsystems to compiler-generated kernels, distributed communication fabrics, and large-scale AI workloads. Your work will play a critical role in platform bring-up, qualification, performance characterization, reliability validation, and fleet readiness for both current and future generations of MAIA systems. You will work closely with silicon architects, compiler teams, runtime developers, performance engineers, validation teams, and AI framework developers to translate platform requirements into scalable tooling and workload solutions. 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.ResponsibilitiesAI Workload & Stress Tool Development Design and develop scalable stress, performance, and validation frameworks for MAIA AI accelerator platforms. Build workload generation infrastructure capable of exercising compute, memory, interconnect, networking, storage, and system-level resources. Develop reusable stress tools using PyTorch, Triton, Python, C++, and custom MAIA SDKs. Create synthetic and production-inspired workloads that model training and inference behaviors observed in large-scale AI deployments. Build automated infrastructure for workload deployment, orchestration, telemetry collection, and result analysis. Hardware-Aware Workload Optimization Develop and optimize kernels targeting custom AI accelerators. Create GEMM, attention, collective communication, and memory intensive stress workloads. Analyze execution...