Microsoft
Principal Performance Architect
$143K–$304K
Mountain View, CA +3 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Austin, TX
Redmond, WA
Sacramento, CA - Experience
- 3+ years with a doctorate, 6+ years with a Master's degree, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's degree; alternatively, equivalent experience. Preferred: 4+ years with Python, C, C++ and 6+ years in performance modeling and analysis.
- Education
- Doctorate, Master's degree, or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Analyzes and optimizes SoC performance and power for AI workloads by developing models and collaborating with architecture, design, and verification teams.
What you'll do
- Analyze SoC performance bottlenecks for critical AI workloads and identify performance, power, and trade-off opportunities.
- Develop, test, and integrate SoC and IP models.
- Collaborate with architects, design, and performance verification teams on future SoC architecture and performance closure.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience; or Master's degree in one of these fields and 6+ years; or Bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 8+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Experience in architecture and workload analysis on GPUs.
- 4+ years of experience with Python, C, C++; 6+ years of experience with performance modeling at various levels of abstraction and analysis.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, C, C++, GPUs, SoC
AI focus
Analyzes critical AI workloads on SoCs and optimizes AI accelerator performance and power.
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