$119,800–$234,700 Per Year
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Background Investigation, Business Growth, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Firmware, Computer Servers, Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Quality, Debugging Skills, Debugging Tools, Design Evaluation, DevOps, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Government Requirements, Hardware Design, Identify Issues, Laboratory Testing, Leading Edge Technology, Logic Analyzer, Machine Tool, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Memory Subsystem, Microsoft Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Network Administration/Management, Network Operations Center, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), On Call, Operating Systems, Operational Measurement, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), Oscilloscope, PCI Express (PCI-E), Power Management, Process Improvement, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Management, Reporting Dashboards, Resolve Customer Issues, Software Design, Software Engineering, Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), Sustainability, System Validation, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Engineering, Technical Leadership, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Test Strategy, Testing, Time Management, Use Cases, Validation Plan, Validation Testing, Windows PowerShell, Xbox
Overview
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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 Microsofts over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, 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.
As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer to lead platform validation and debug activities. As a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer, you will develop system validation plans for Azures leading HW solutions by incorporating advanced technologies, datacenter use cases and by working across different engineering functions. Responsibilities will include architecting and developing efficient test and debug frameworks for cutting edge technologies, building test and debug automation, partnering with leading technology providers to define test and debug strategies, driving unified and efficient test, validation and debug methodologies across product segments. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.
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Responsibilities
- Plan, design and execute system validation plans, test frameworks for state-of-the-art HW solutions based on CPU/GPU applications to confirm design meets cloud grade quality.
- Drive debug for complex failures in lab and Azure DC environment.
- Drive continuous improvement to achieve unified and standard testing, validation and debug methodology - adopt automation, AI capabilities to drive efficiency and enhance test coverage.
- Work with OEMs/ODMs and other system engineers to run system validation, SKU qualification, scale testing, and system debugging.
- Validation and debug work with test engineers in the laboratory.
- Identify, triage and resolve server subsystem faults; drive end-to-end root cause with cross team partners and implement fixes.
- Work with stakeholders on process improvement, data quality improvement, and cross-boundary triaging.
- Develop automation and tooling for server validation in collaboration with other teams.
- Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new AI trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Handle a DevOps role with occasional on-call responsibilities for resolving customer issues in production.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in programing languages such as Python/PowerShell or similar for automation development or integration.
- Understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces and interdependencies, different CPU and GPU architecture and system design concepts
- Familiar with different technology areas including but not limited to PCIe, memory subsystems, networking, power management, rack device management, remote device management
- Experienced in defining custom HW tools for either validation or debug.
- Troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Experience in debug and measurement tools such as Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, PCIe analyzers.
- Experience in evaluating hardware designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform config trade-offs, and E2E error flows is required.
- Experience with data analytics, data collection/aggregation, and dashboarding.
Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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