Microsoft Principal Hardware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

58097061

focusing on Memory (DRAM and its replacement) and Storage

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In this roleyou will focus onengineering fortorage, andCloud storagedevices, their system integration, and their useto deliver secure, scalable, and reliable storage infraand serviceshave bothextensive technicalstrong people skillsto effectivelywith different organizations in SCHIE and CAASE,across Azure

your technicalby working in ato discover, define, and deliverstorage innovation at Cloud-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 11+ years technical engineering experience

  • OR Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience

    o OR equivalent experience.

• 9+years ofengineeringexperience inproduct development or architecturefor storage devices, storage systems or storage software.
• 5+ years experience with Cloudhardwareplatform architecture
• 3+ years in technical leadership position involving storage-related projects, including, but not limited to, performance modeling, TCO modeling, QoS, customer use-cases and data flows. Applicability to AI training and inference systems is a plus."

Other Requirement:

Abilityto meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsrequired 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

• -depth knowledge of storage-intensiveusecases in one or more applicationareas(e.g.AI, HPC, Databases)

• withtheCloudsystem and softwaresolutionspaceinone or more areas,e.g.virtualization / multi-tenancy,datasecurity,manageability at scale, or

• Experience withdefining and implementingstorage-related industry standards,e.g.NVMe, SAS/SATA, PCIe, OCP, TCG

• withtools forstorage and systembenchmarking, application profiling, and system resourceutilization

• andassessinnovationopportunitiesforstoragedevicesinAzure, including in areas of performance, security,manageability,sustainability, and total cost of ownership (TCO).

• theactualuse ofstoragedevicesin various Azurefleetsystems and applications;identifyusagetrends as well as current and future pain points.

• valueproposition and technology risks for newly proposedstorage device features and capabilities, including those proposed bystoragedevice vendors

• planand execute Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) todemonstratethe value and feasibility ofthe most promising newstorage device features and capabilities in Azure systems and use cases.

• withvarious storage architecture

• lignthe storagedevicevendorsand the larger storage ecosystemwith the Azure technologyroadmapforstoragedevices,utilizingvendor meetings as well as industry events and conferences.