Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world.  The Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) 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’s 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’s 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

• Run System Validation and SKU Qualification

• Work with development teams to optimize software and hardware configurations; Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance the performance of existing systems.

• Develop node/rack system level test cases, test requirements against system level requirements and verify them for functionality at node/rack level. 

• Lead in cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution.  

• Be part of the concept design discussions, gather node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to help develop robust and high-performance cloud hardware solutions. 

• 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. 

• Work with ODMs, Silicon vendors, 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. 

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.

• Develop performance testing frameworks and tools.

• Conduct system performance testing to ensure reliability, capacity, and scalability; Monitor system performance over time to catch degradations before they impact customers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree 

• 2+ years of relevant experience in “server systems/platforms design, development and Validation” OR “Proven experience in performance engineering”

• Hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, OS interfaces, and/or Hands on experience in system performance engineering

• Strong knowledge of performance metrics and benchmarking.

• Strong understanding of software and hardware performance factors.

• Strong technical communication skills (verbal and written) to 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  

• Experience in performance benchmarking tools such as SPEC workloads, Linpack 

• Experience in GPUs, and various networking standards including InfiniBand 

• Experience in windows and Linux operating systems, test automation and Hyperscale testing covering hundreds of Systems under Test. 

• Understanding and experience in device drivers and debugging issues related to interactions with HW subsystem

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. 

• Understanding how standard server interfaces, such as PCIe, SATA, and memory, work with their respective software stacks. 

• Functional knowledge of secure boot, attestation, FW update & recovery on server platform architectures.  

• Experience in platform HW and FW security capabilities (RoT) and implementations. 

• Familiarity with NIST 800 standards pertains to FW support for secure update and secure recovery. 

• Experience in Server platform HW designs or Server platform validation with knowledge of system level firmware, will be an added advantage. 

• Experience in platform level test architecture and usage of debug tools like (ITP, Arium, ARM JTAG tools or equivalent). 

• Volume hardware test and debug expertise 

• 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, OS is required. 

• Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages will be addon.

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .