Job Description

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team is seeking a highly motivated senior hardware systems engineer to work in a team of other hardware and software developers to create systems and modules to be deployed in Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s Azure Cloud. Microsoft provides ample opportunities for developers to have an impact on products that touch the lives of millions of users daily, in a cutting-edge public cloud environment.

As a Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware designs from concept to data center deployment. Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s services teams, cross-discipline design teams focusing on the functional interfaces and developing test cases and qualifying the designs. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of concept design discussions, gathering of node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to develop robust, high-performance cloud hardware solutions.
• Lead in cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution.
• Gather all system engineering requirements for infrastructure components by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders.
• Develop node and rack system level test cases, design tests against system level requirements and verify them for functionality at node and rack level.
• Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
• Work with ODMs, other system engineers, internal design teams and customers to develop validation execution plans for new technologies and MSFT IP features.
• Development of quality criteria for different phases of programs
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment.
• Work with ODMs, silicon vendors, other component suppliers and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugging, and resolving issues.
• Review system engineering and validation coverage throughout the lifecycle of the program and publish plan vs. progress reports.
• Guide Systems engineers on test case development, automation, test execution and debug.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree
• 10+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms design and development for enterprise or cloud market segments.
• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience in server hardware design / development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces.
• Strong technical communication skills (verbal and written) for an interface with cross-functional technical leads within and/or outside of the organization.
• Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Familiar with networking, power, rack device management and remote access environments
• Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifying potential fixes down to a board hardware, signal integrity, CPLD, thermal and Firmware components and OS is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in evaluating off the shelf OEM hardware designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform config trade-offs, performance tuning and optimizations is required.
• Knowledge of server and storage architecture
• Experience in platform level test architecture and usage of debug tools like (ITP and Wombat JTAG tools or equivalent).
• Experience with IO sub-system performance and stress tools (fio, Iometer, Stressapptest, Y-Cruncher, etc.)
• Experience with system integration validation (EVT, DVT, PVT) of new hardware + firmware designs
• Experience with prototype hardware and bench testing methodology
• Experience in Firmware development will be an added advantage.
• Fleet debug experience

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. 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 .

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