**Overview**

Microsoft Research Cambridge is hiring two researchers for its Cambridge Residency Programme (two-year postdoctoral positions) to advance the design and evaluation of next-generation datacentre networks for AI workloads. We are seeking to hire a collaborative pair of researchers with complementary profiles: one focused on analytical modelling and simulation, the other on systems implementation and experimental validation.

AI training and inference are fundamentally changing the communication patterns and cost envelope of cloud infrastructure, creating new opportunities to rethink datacentre network architecture and systems from first principles.

The positions are based at Microsoft Research Cambridge within the Future AI Infrastructure group. The group combines long-term research with close collaboration across Microsoft product teams and academic partners, creating opportunities to publish, prototype, and influence future cloud systems. The team sp...