**Overview**

The future of AI is being built not just in software, but in the physics of light. Our Future AI Infrastructure (FAI) team at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pioneering new hardware and system technologies to fundamentally reshape how AI systems scale — breaking through the bandwidth, latency, and energy walls that constrain today's accelerator architectures. You will join a team at the frontier of AI system design, where novel photonic hardware meets the rapidly evolving demands of large-scale AI workloads. Here, your ideas won't stay on paper — you will work alongside world-class researchers and industry partners to translate architectural vision into working silicon and system prototypes that define the next generation of AI infrastructure.

As an AI systems architect with expertise in computer architecture, you will be the core member designing and evaluating future AI computer-system architectures that leverage novel optical interconnects and memory t...