Overview
Microsoft’s AI infrastructure is evolving rapidly to support the next generation of large-scale AI training and inference. The AI Frameworks (AIFx) Networking & Systems Tools (NeST) organisation develops foundational system software that enables Microsoft’s Maia accelerator platforms across pre-silicon development, hardware bring-up, cloud integration and production cloud infrastructure that enables AI accelerators to operate reliably and efficiently at cloud scale.

Within NeST, the India Development Centre is building end-to-end engineering competency across the Maia system software stack. Our work spans the boundary between distributed cloud systems and low-level accelerator software, including control-plane services, host and device management software, accelerator virtualisation, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Developer/Debugger Infrastructure tools, hardware lifecycle management, reliability, telemetry and diagnostics.





We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in systems software and distributed systems to help architect and build the software infrastructure for large-scale AI accelerator platforms.
In this role, you will work across cloud services, operating systems, host agents, device interfaces and accelerator infrastructure. You will solve challenging problems involving hardware lifecycle management, orchestration, resource management, fault detection and recovery, virtualisation, observability and infrastructure reliability.

This is an chance to influence the architecture of foundational AI infrastructure and build systems that operate across a diverse and evolving ecosystem of GPUs and AI accelerators.
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

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Bengaluru