Microsoft Azure Fiber & AI is experiencing exponential growth fueled by ongoing Cloud & AI success and emerging unprecedented demands. The team needs to design, build, and operate a Global Optical Network, the backbone of connectivity for seamless interaction with Azure and services like ChatGPT, while also preparing for future growth and integrating AI-powered network management.
Requirements
- 1+ years experience managing large scale optical transport systems and provisioning, troubleshooting, and maintaining long-haul and metro optical networks.
- 1+ years experience with optical performance management tools, and optical transmission technologies including DWDM, CWDM, ROADM, and OTN.
- Ability to interpret OTDR/eye-diagram/constellation traces and apply advanced troubleshooting for signal integrity and optical impairments.
- 1+ years experience in fiber optical network design, development, capacity planning, operations and automation with background in fiber optical networks
- 3+ years experience delivering network designs into production and experience with live site accountability for a network.
- 1+ year(s) experience developing quality management programs
- Optical Technologies & Standards: Over 1 year of experience in IM-DD optical technologies including PAM4 and NRZ signaling, with familiarity in IEEE 802.3 Ethernet optics standards (400G/800G DR4, FR4, LR4, SR4) and compliance specifications.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of components and systems from design through deployment, operations, and automation
- Contribute to the innovation of transformative technologies such as, SiPho, CPO, and HCF optics for AI
- Spearhead the development and integration of advanced AI-empowered network management, quality monitoring and improvement software, guaranteeing the highest quality of fiber & optical assets
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ascertain customer requirements specific to optical networking for AI systems.
- Lead the design and development of specialized optical network components, focusing on optical direct-detection and coherent technologies, to meet both customer and technical requirements.
- Create comprehensive design documents that detail the architectural blueprint for optical solutions optimized for AI applications.
- Performs testing and validation of network devices, firmware, and configurations; defines and implements test cases with automation tools and exposes test coverage gaps.
Other
- Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
