Are you passionate about transforming the way in which people communicate and connect around the world at work and at home? Are you motivated by the challenges of building real-time communication services at cloud-scale? The Skype and Teams Infrastructure team is looking for a strong Architect to drive the strategic investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning in the real-time meetings infrastructure for our Skype, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, and beyond. The Principal Architect role will lead the cross-team effort for driving improvements and innovations through AI and ML for conversations and communication. This includes gathering and prioritizing requirements from customers, marketing, and partner teams, devising, selecting, and prioritizing opportunities for use ML and AI for strategic opportunities in our products, devising ways of how to strategically collect data to get the virtuous AI cycle going, working with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and
Responsibilities: Define and architect applications of machine learning for a major area of the Office365 business Understand a highly competitive, and fast changing market Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with passion for cloud-scale services Expertise and passion working with machine learning and data Strong written and oral communication skills Disseminate knowledge about ML to others in the organization Providing data driven insights on opportunities to improve services and design user features Demonstrated success building strong relationships and delivering results in cross-group
Minimum Qualifications 10+ years of experience in program management or product development in software companies 5 years experience in ML systems 5 years experience in cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS MS or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent Demonstrated experience in the entire software product development cycle Preferred Qualifications Previous experience working on real-time communications solutions is a plus Previous experience and expertise in networking is a plus Our team celebrates innovation with a customer focus and making engineering choices always