Principal Platform Technical Program Manager

Overview

Microsoft's Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) designs and delivers the hardware platforms that power Azure's global cloud and AI services. As a Principal Platform Technical Program Manager, you will lead execution of next-generation accelerated AI computing systems-shaping early definition, aligning cross-disciplinary teams, and ensuring platforms meet performance, reliability, and operational readiness requirements. You will connect compute, networking, firmware, power/cooling, and platform software into solutions that scale across Azure's global footprint.

In this role, you will guide programs from early engineering development through validation, New Product Introduction (NPI), pilot deployment, and fleet-level readiness. You will drive disciplined, cross-functional execution across internal engineering teams, technology partners, and global manufacturing and supply chain organizations-ensuring platforms are built, tested, and production-ready at scale.

You will also partner closely with internal business and deployment stakeholders to inform program decisions, accelerate readiness milestones, and enable clean transitions into downstream deployment and operations, with a consistent emphasis on performance, reliability, and operational excellence for demanding AI workloads.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and scale. You pair deep technical insight with strong program leadership-driving cross-team alignment, surfacing tradeoffs early, de-risking delivery through structured planning and mitigation, and communicating crisp status and decision asks. Your work improves execution confidence across Azure's accelerated computing programs and helps deliver reliable, production-ready AI infrastructure for customers worldwide.

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Responsibilities

• Own the Plan-of-Record (POR) and critical path across engineering, validation, manufacturing, and deployment-maintaining clear scope, milestones, exit criteria, and the integrated critical-path view.

• Run the execution operating rhythm (readiness reviews, issue triage, dependency deep-dives) that turns ambiguity into explicit owners, dates, and measurable exits.

• Drive cross-org dependency management across multiple organizations and time horizons (early definition through fleet readiness), actively deconflict plans and preventing late-stage integration surprises.

• Operate a disciplined risk/issue system with explicit mitigations, decision points, recovery plans, and confidence-protecting schedule and quality and reducing "surprises at the edges."

• Establish and govern change control (requirements, interfaces, BOM/build plan changes) using clear decision records and impact/tradeoff framing-preserving downstream stability while sustaining engineering velocity.

• Drive evidence-based milestone exits by aligning stakeholders on measurable readiness criteria and ensuring exits are supported by data/artifacts-not assumptions.

• Partner with global manufacturing and supply chain to make plans production-capable: build strategy, material readiness, quality gates, and ramp readiness aligned to engineering/validation exits.

• Partner with deployment and operations-and communicate to exec stakeholders to land fleet readiness (serviceability, diagnostics/telemetry, operational workflows) and drive timely decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and escalation paths.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience?

• 3+ years' experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of technical program management or project management experience or a technical role with systems engineering?experience, preferably in Cloud server design, accelerators, Networking solutions, FW & SW development and deployment, and systems solutions from cradle to grave.

• 6+ years of experience in managing cross-functional and / or cross-team projects, responsible for critical systems and operations in a matrix organization.?

• Experience with hardware, firmware & software and complex system design, test and integration.

• Knowledge of high-volume server design and manufacturing is desired.

• Knowledge about datacenters & operation at scale.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (