Principal Technical Program Manager- AI Infrastructure at Microsoft

The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience … OR equivalent experience' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of the degree, the degree requirement is set to None.

The 8-year floor is stated as a combined requirement across engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development — it is a role-level experience gate, not tied to a single named technology.

The role sits between a senior individual-contributor TPM (15-1299) and a people-management/director track (11-3021). The posting describes no direct reports or budget ownership, so it is classified as an IC TPM under 15-1299, with 11-3021 as the runner-up.

AI training/inference workloads and performance optimization appear in a context describing the ability to 'influence technical discussions' rather than as hard technical gates, so they are marked preferred.

'Technical program management' and 'cross-functional project management' are listed as skills here to capture the explicit years-demanded figures stated in the posting; they are role-level competencies rather than named tools, but the specific year requirements make them worth surfacing.

Ignored 5 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): technical program management, cross-functional project management, hardware/software co-development, AI training/inference workloads, performance optimization.