Microsoft Silicon 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, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) 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 seasoned engineers with a strong 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 seek a knowledgeable and experienced system memory & storage senior engineer to collaborate with Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering, Azure Engineering, and Qualification Engineering and Component Enablement groups to qualify memory and storage components for Microsoft Data Center. We are looking for a candidate who can understand components architecture, software applications, and OS environment to lead components qualification, debug, and test development for both device and system levels. This role will also include writing test software in some cases and debug…, at the cutting edge of high-performance computing, provides an opportunity to benefit millions of users daily. The successful candidate must be able to synthesize complex and sometimes conflicting requirements from hardware, software and business teams.

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Responsibilities

• Qualification lead for memory and storage components testing.

• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define and architect test solutions for both component and system levels to meet requirements and specification.

• Oversee the test plans and qualification coverage for memory and storage, including usage models

• Debug and drive to resolution issues related to the qualification of Microsoft’s Cloud Servers

• Develop test scripts as needed for debug and focus testing

• Work with suppliers and internal teams on resolving issues

• Interact with multiple teams inside and outside of Microsoft

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, Computer Engineering or Master’s degree preferred – or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in hardware validation (planning, documentation, development, execution, and debug)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with server system memory and storage technology

• Knowledge of X86 server system, system memory, and storage architecture

• Familiar with networking, power, rack management and remote access environments

• Experience integrating and validating hardware components and/or system levels.

• Familiar with and able to develop scripts (PowerShell, Python, Perl) and routines to enable debug and accelerate data collection and data reduction via automation.

• Self-motivated individual, must be able to work collaboratively in team environment and across internal divisions and industry (OEM, ODM), demonstrate technical leadership in driving successful product development.

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) .