Job Description

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.


Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new technology in a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission "To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more"?


The Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation Hardware/Firmware for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.


We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer with experience in System on Chip Architecture (SoC), SoC Diagnostics, tools development to diagnose multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.


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Responsibilities
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• Owns SOC(CPU/GPU) and Platform Diagnostic Tools development and debugging of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC etc.)
• Ability to see system level "big picture" to diagnose the integrated firmware/system software based on architectural goals of product in order to segregate hardware vs software problems.
• Collaborate with system and FW architects to gather the diagnostic requirements, translate them to tools, framework and utilities and building them to fulfil the requirements.
• Excellent development, debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for diagnostics requirements.
• Work with architect, firmware, program management and component dev teams for day-to-days operations as well as for long-term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings
• Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve diagnostics coverage, problem segregation and efficiency of our remediation flows.

Qualifications
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Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• 5+ years of professional experience in CPU/GPU diagnostics or system level development/debugging in embedded systems
• 5+ years of Programing in linux/windows environment using C or C++
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.



Preferred Qualifications: • Demonstrated experience in system level design, development and debugging of system software.
• Experience in tools development in server space is big plus.
• Experience of creating diagnostic flows, adapting already existing open source tools and developing new diagnostic tools as per the requirement.
• Experience of creating or working with pipelines aka CI/CD (development + unit testing)
• Experience of firmware development on multiple HW test environments (FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.)
• Have deep experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding of managing and triaging production level issues.
• Excellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills
• Debug experience resulting in solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.



Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.