AI Reliability Engineer (HPC)

Microsoft•,

175d•$119,800 - $304,200•Hybrid

About The Position

As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are on the lookout for passionate individuals to work with us on the most interesting and challenging AI questions of our time. Our vision is bold and broad — to build systems that have true artificial intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure. It’s also inclusive: we aim to make AI accessible to all — consumers, businesses, developers — so that everyone can realize its benefits. We’re looking for an experienced HPC Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll blend software engineering and systems engineering to keep our large-scale distributed AI infrastructure reliable and efficient. You’ll ensure that AI systems stay efficient and reliable with very high uptimes. This role is part of Microsoft AI. Our Superintelligence team is a startup-like organization within Microsoft, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence while maintaining a strong commitment to safety, responsibility, and human values. Our mission is to build AI that amplifies human potential and empowers people around the world. We strive to deliver breakthroughs that advance science, education, productivity, and global well-being. We’re also fortunate to partner with incredible product teams giving our models the chance to reach billions of users and create immense positive impact. If you’re a brilliant, highly-ambitious and low ego individual, you’ll fit right in—come and join us as we work on our next generation of models! Starting January 26, 2026, MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S., country-specific) of that location. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering OR equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for Inference and ML model deployment.
Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms like Azure/AWS/GCP and infrastructure-as-code.
Expertise in monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage.
Experience running large-scale GPU clusters for ML/AI workloads (preferred).
Familiarity with ML training/inference pipelines.
Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) and workload schedulers ( Kubernetes operators).
Background in capacity planning & cost optimization for GPU-heavy environments.

Responsibilities

Ensure uptime, resiliency, and fault tolerance of HPC clusters powering MAI model training and inference.
Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into all aspects of HPC systems including GPU, clusters, storage and networking.
Build automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in CPU+GPU environments.
Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvements.
Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across model training and serving environments.
Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.