Microsoft Senior Hardware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

824999658

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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-focusing on the functional interfaces and developing test cases

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Master's degree in Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Doctorate degree in , Computer Engineering, or related field.

• 7+ years of experience in server hardware architecture, design, development with demonstrated experience in hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces.

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 isrequired

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

• Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifyingpotential fixes down toa boardhardware, signal integrity, CPLD, thermal and Firmware components, OS isrequired

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 8, 2024.

• 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.

• Gather all the system engineering requirements for the infrastructure components by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders. Develop test strategy, test-cases and execute platform validation plans of the systems (node/rack level).

• new technologiesand MSFT IP features.

• Developing quality criteria fordifferent phasesof programs

• Work with ODMs, Silicon vendors,componentsuppliers 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 cloudenvironment.Architectcloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
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