Microsoft Senior Firmware Validation Engineer 

India 

656270759

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Engineer with experienceSystem on Chip Architecture (SoC),ring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• 8+ years of professional experience in design/development, integration,validation,or system level debugging in embedded systems
• Strong problem solving,debugging,and troubleshootingskills.
• Hands on experience in programing in Python or C or C++
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in system levelIntegration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup),automation framework (such as Robot Framework),and debugging of system software.
• Experience in validation / development in server space isbigplus.
• Experience of creating validation testplans, developing test content to achieve the validationplan,and automating the execution of testcontents.
• 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.)
• Have deep experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding of managing and triaging production level issues.
• Good knowledge of hardware debuggers like JTAG, Oscilloscope, and Logic Analyzer etc.
• Knowledge ofautomation framework setup and deployment.
• Excellent communication andinter-teamcollaboration skills
• Debug experience resultinginsolving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.

• SOC and Platform FWIntegration, validation (including validation environment), and debuggingofdifferent domains within server architecture (such as SoCFWs, BIOS, BMC etc.)
• Ability to see systemlevel “big picture”tovalidatethat the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of productin order tomeet the defined use cases and KPIs (thermal, power,stabilityand performance).
• Collaborate with system and FW architects to gather the requirements, translate tovalidation plans, develop test content, automate executions, and debug/triage ofobserved/reportedfailures.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills withthe aimto becomepoint-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues forsubsequentreleases.
• Workwith architect, firmware, program management andcomponentdev teams for day-to-days operations as well as forlong-termroadmap improvements by feeding back keylearnings
• Passionateabout exploring and deploying noble methods to improve test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases.
• Create automated dashboards toalways reflect “health” and “quality” of systemfor decision