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 Microsoft's 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 Microsoft's 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 Systems Engineer II to join the team.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Run System Validation and SKU Qualification on cutting edge Cobalt servers

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.

Developing quality criteria for different phases of programs

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.

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

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.

Create collateral for customer support, both internal and external.
Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience.
2+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms design and development for enterprise or cloud market segments. 
Hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces. 
Proficient in technical communication skills (verbal and written) to interface with cross-functional technical leads within and/or outside of the organization.

Other Requirements:

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: 

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.

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.
Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Familiar with networking, power, rack device management and remote access environments 
Understanding and experience in device drivers and debugging issues related to interactions with HW subsystem
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 System.

Hardware Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 19th, 2025.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

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