**Overview**

As a **Principal** **Software Engineering Manager** - **AI Frameworks** on the team, you will lead and grow a group of engineers working across multiple layers of the AI software serving stack, including fundamental abstractions, runtimes, libraries, and application programming interfaces (APIs). You will be responsible for setting technical direction, prioritizing investments, and ensuring the team delivers high-impact performance improvements that enable large-scale model training and inference.

In this role, you will guide the team’s work on benchmarking OpenAI and other large language models (LLMs) across GPUs and Microsoft hardware, driving performance optimization, monitoring regressions, and accelerating time-to-deployment. You will partner closely with researchers, product teams, and platform owners to translate performance insights into production-ready improvements that reduce hardware footprint and support Microsoft Azure’s capex efficien...