Hiring: Principal Technical Program Manager Company: Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:57:30 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Azure, Phoenix, Program Management About the job Experience: •6+ years experience in Technical Program Management, AI Data center Infrastructure engineering,Cloud or data center platform delivery OR equivalent experience. •3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. •6+ years’ experience in AI data center infrastructure, GPU platforms, or hyperscale networking. Required Skills: •Turn record-breaking AI infrastructure acceleration into the global operating standard. •This role sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure engineering, data-center deployment, network architecture, capacity delivery, operational excellence, and organizational transformation. •The Principal Technical Program Manager will take proven AI Network and GPU capacity acceleration practices—from design validation and deployment readiness through regional network readiness, infrastructure optimization, and deployment execution—and convert them into repeatable, measurable, and globally adopted capabilities. •This is not a traditional program-management role. •It is a technical execution and scaling leadership role designed for someone who can move comfortably between architecture conversations, critical-path deployment problems, executive decisions, engineering teams, regional operations, and global process transformation. •The successful candidate will help provide solutions to make extraordinary deployment performance repeatable everywhere. •Identify where AI infrastructure delivery remains dependent on manual coordination, repeated escalation, organizational handoffs or individual expertise and systematically eliminate those dependencies. •GPU infrastructure and large-scale AI clusters Qualifications: •Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in Technical Program Management, AI Data center Infrastructure engineering,Cloud or data center platform delivery OR equivalent experience. •Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. •Strong technical judgment with the ability to engage credibly with engineering partners. •Backend fabrics using InfiniBand and/or advanced technologies, including optics •Large-scale GPU clusters (training and/or inference) •High-density rack architectures, optics, and cabling systems •Backend network scale limits and failure modes •Design standardization Compensation: •$142,800 - $274,800 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!