Microsoft launches AI Supercomputer Infrastructure team led by Daniel Firestone
Microsoft has created a new AI Supercomputer Infrastructure team to handle its most demanding AI training and inference workloads. The team is led by Daniel Firestone, a Microsoft veteran who spent over a decade deploying SmartNICs and networking components, and was responsible for the dataplane of Azure Boost, Microsoft's high-performance virtualized infrastructure for data center networking…
Key points
- New AI Supercomputer Infrastructure team supports largest training and inference jobs
- Led by Daniel Firestone, veteran of SmartNICs and Azure Boost dataplane
- Team hiring across ICs, tech leads, and engineering managers
Firestone announced the move on LinkedIn, noting that with the third generation of Azure Boost shipping and scaling successfully at 400G earlier this year, he decided to focus on rapidly scaling AI infrastructure in Azure. The new team will hire across individual contributors, tech leads, and engineering managers. Firestone previously co-founded the HostNet team with Alireza Dabagh, which developed early SmartNICs and the Azure Boost program.
Microsoft launches AI Supercomputer Infrastructure team, led by networking head
sdxcentral.com · 21 October 2026
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