Microsoft Principal Systems Engineer - Hardware 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

451565291

Silicon +Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and deliveringa trustedenergy 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, thes Engineering (is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery,and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions,and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage andthe Cloud infrastructure.

Systems Engineer - Hardwareto join the team.As a Hardware Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware solutions and testing designs.  Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft’s cloud services teams, cross-discipline design teamsfocusing on the functional interfaces and developing test casesand qualifying the designs.  This is an opportunity toand grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in hardware design, system design, and validation for servers, storage, and datacenter infrastructure—covering all phases of development and product release cycles.
• 8+ years of development expertise across hardware and firmware system interfaces, with deep knowledge of server, datacenter, AI, storage, and embedded systems.

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:

• Knowledge of high-volume serverand FPGA carddesign and manufacturing is desired.
• Knowledge of high-speed networking and system interconnect and memory technologies (PCIe, DDR-DRAM, I2C/SPI/SMBUS)
• Experience in platform level test architecture and usage of debug tools like (PCIe protocol analyzers, JTAG tools orequivalent).
• Experience in firmware development will be an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design, test, and debug complex hardware technologies for product development.
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
• Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle.
• Experience with hardware, firmware, & software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a systemincluding PCIe.
• System engineering process & practices – requirements definition, architecture, implementation & validation.
• Experience developing hardware verification and functional test plans.
• Experience working across disciplines and organizations to resolve complex issues.
• Proventechnicalcommunication skills (verbal and written).
• Proven ability to assess technical risks, lead hands-on design and debug efforts, and conduct impact assessments.
• Skilled in requirements definition, architecture, implementation, validation, and debug across complex engineering environments.
• Experience working in the E2E solution space ofhardwaredesigncollaborating with several cross functional teams across silicon, platform, and customer teams.
• Experience in design, test, and debug of complex hardware technologies for product development.

Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 3, 2025.

• Lead in cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution.
• Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
• Develop guidelines for validation strategies, manufacturing, system bring-up, and system evaluation.
• Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product and delivering to the quality goals across reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, and performance.
• Learn, analyze, and work with new interfaces and subsystems, break down complex issues, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to resolve issuesin a timely manner.
• 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).
• Work with ODMs, other system engineers, internal design teams and customers to develop validation execution plans fornew technologiesand MSFT IP features.Use statistical analysis methods toidentifyhighly complexissues that may affect a range of feature or product design changes.Identifypossible solutionsto novel and complex problems.
• Own the engineering interface between the customer and development teams across silicon, platform, ODM vendors, and the factory test/calibration team in the form of a test/user scenario development.
• Collaborate in design reviews between dev teams and development suppliers.Experience in critical complex issuedebugand resolution in HW design.
• Perform NUDD(New, Unique, Different, Difficult) module feature analysis against supplier’s capabilities and provide risk mitigation foridentifiedgaps and schedule impact assessment.
• Analyze and evaluate build data for each module engineering build, presenting summary to the developmentteamand adjusting test spec limits based on build analysis.
• Architectandoptimizesystem and device leveltest scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
• Guide systems engineers on test case development, automation, test execution anddebug.