The Azure High-Performance Computing (HPC) software team is responsible for the overall experience of running HPC + AI workloads in Azure, from batch workloads to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to traditional HPC simulations to remote visualization. We are on a mission to deliver the future of HPC + AI by making HPC “better”, i.e., simpler, faster, and more powerful, and enabling organizations to transform their most challenging and valuable workloads. 

We do this through three primary offerings: Azure Batch, Azure CycleCloud, and Microsoft HPC Pack, and through close collaboration with the Azure HPC hardware team, other teams within Microsoft, and the broader HPC + AI ecosystem. This is an exciting time for HPC + AI, as they are undergoing a massive shift. AI technologies are being merged with existing HPC approaches, and both are moving to the cloud!  

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced PM/TPM to join our to help us deliver the next generation of our HPC software products. You’ll be responsible for driving best-in-Cloud integration with some of our users’ preferred tools, including HPC job schedulers and workflow tools. You’ll also develop new product features and will work across teams, partners, and customers to enable a delightful experience running key workloads across our HPC product portfolio. A working knowledge of HPC applications and tooling, and large-scale computing experience is required. 

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes, including:    

• Agency – comfortable with ambiguity, able to work independently, and strong cross-boundary/team collaborator.  
• Agility – able to adapt to changing conditions and priorities.   
• Communication – able to influence others and work cross-functionally to achieve broad goals.  
• Customer Focus – deep customer empathy and understanding. 
• Drive For Results - able to drive for results and to follow a problem through to its resolution.  
• Listening – deeply listening to customers and partners and synthesizing their feedback to drive continuously better products.  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• 4+ years in product management or technical program management 
• 2+ years of experience with HPC, AI, or analytics workloads or with distributed systems such as Kubernetes. 
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud computing, containerized workflows, or other virtualized computing environments and technologies. 
• Proven ability to influence across teams and organizations.  
• Experience in building business cases to advocate for customer and partner success 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with HPC job schedulers or workflow tools such as Slurm, LSF, Dask, Airflow, Nextflow, or others.  
• Deep HPC | AI | technical computing expertise. 
• Experience in defining and/or shipping APIs and API-driven solutions. 
• Practical knowledge of Linux 
• Experience deploying and running AI frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc 
• Customer and quality obsession 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:  

  

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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