Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

469089742

We are looking for a highly motivated senior Software Engineer with experience in System on Chip Architecture (SoC), Bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands on experience in programming in Python or C or C++
• 10+ years of working experience in design & architecture, development, validation/testing, and release and performance tuning.
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, Use-case Validation, features validation, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.
• Platform Debugging in Windows or Linux environment.
• Exposure to CPU’s, GPU’s, end-to-end validation understanding, triaging/resolving customer issues

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in system level Integration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup), automation framework (such as Robot Framework), and debugging of system software
• Experience in use-case/feature level validation / development in server space is big plus (such as telemetry, RAS, firmware update, BMC).
• Experience of creating validation test plans, developing test content to achieve the validation plan, and automating the execution of test contents.
• Experience of creating or working with automated testing pipeline aka CI/CD (integration + validation)
• Experience of firmware development and testing on multiple HW test environments (FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.)
• Good knowledge of hardware debuggers like JTAG, Oscilloscope, and Logic Analyzer etc.
• Knowledge of automation framework setup and deployment.
• Excellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills
• Debug experience resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues
• Experience in validation / development in server space is big plus

Successful candidates are expected to exhibit some or all the traits below on this job:

• Owns SOC and Platform FW Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC, RAS, Reset etc.)
• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product in order to meet the defined use cases and KPIs (thermal, power, stability and performance).
• Collaborate with system and FW architects to gather the requirements, translate to validation plans, develop test content, automate executions, and debug/triage of observed/reported failures.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases.
• Deeply collaborate 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 test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases.
• Create automated dashboards to always reflect “health” and “quality” of system for decision making