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Azure Global is assembling projects-oriented teams that are focused on expanding the core capabilities of the Azure cloud and how its emerging infrastructure can be applied to advanced concepts. These teams demonstrate groundbreaking capabilities that explore new technology areas and applications, bringing new approaches and solutions to address the needs of the government. As Microsoft develops and grows our business in strategic global industries such as cloud gaming, health and life sciences, energy, and telecommunications, we identify and take on advanced projects to push the art-of-the-possible with Azure. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we strive to make Azure the best cloud for every industry and customer. Join us and build the future of global computing and connectivity!

Job Description

The Azure Global Special Capabilities, Infrastructure and Innovation (ASCII) team seeks a team-oriented engineer who enjoys both internal collaboration and working with external customers & partners to embrace and solve new technology challenges. As a Senior Software Engineer on the ASCII team focusing on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, you will work in an agile environment that values creativity, knowledge sharing, and employee growth. We seek out new and different perspectives, exercise curiosity, and embrace a culture of learning. In this role, you will have substantial opportunity to shape technical direction, make a tangible and positive impact, and obtain unique and valuable experience across an array of technologies. Specifically, you will guide and lead the maturation of Homographic Encryption technology as a differentiating capability for the Azure cloud. By working with industry leaders and government agencies, you will drive a fundamentally new distributed computing paradigm through advances in Homomorphic Encryption-specific hardware, library and API development and cloud workload optimization.

* Work closely with Microsoft Research to develop extensions for and guide hardware acceleration of the SEAL Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Library.
* Experiment, rapidly prototype, and evaluate FHE-specific hardware technology for their use in the Azure cloud environment.
* Craft software and technical solutions that are well-architected, documented, and designed with empathy and understanding for end users.
* Design and implement new FHE offerings on our platform for use by our global customer-base.
* Communicate, share ideas, and collaboratively work with partner teams, PMs, and leads.
* Stay abreast and informed of the latest technologies and share your findings and insights about their utility and potential for our technical development efforts.

Required Qualifications:

* 1 year+ peer-reviewed publication record and/or product development history with FHE.
* 1 year+ hands-on experience with FHE algorithms like BGV, BFV, and CKKS etc.
* 1 year+ hands-on experience with FHE-specific operations such as key switching, slot rotation/permutation and bootstrapping.
* Ability and flexibility to learn and adapt to a spectrum of services and platform capabilities that make up Azure.

Desired Qualifications:

* 2 years of post-undergraduate experience and/or Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
* 1 year+ experience with usage, implementation, and optimization of Microsoft's SEAL FHE library.
* Documented proficiency in group theory, lattice-based cryptography, computer arithmetic, and high-performance computing.
* 1 year+ experience with privacy-preserving AI/ML techniques such as secure multiparty computation and knowledge of compute workloads that benefit from accelerated FHE.
* Knowledge of cryptography hardware implementations, e.g. for RSA, and libraries such as OpenSSL.
* Knowledge of modern ultra-high scale hardware development practices and tools with specific proficiency in deep submicron CMOS.
* Knowledge of trusted execution environments (TEE), e.g., Intel SGX.
* Ability to design and architect solutions on top of cloud infrastructure.
* The candidate should be equally comfortable interacting with anyone: from a very technical developer to a business-focused executive.
* Strong analytical and strategic capabilities, with excellent written and presentation skills
* Experience with Government-focused and/or funded projects and experience with Government customers (e.g., DARPA).

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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