Microsoft Principal Systems Engineer 

United States, California, Mountain View 

674622751

a highly motivatedPrincipal Systems Engineerample opportunities

As a Principal Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware designs from concept to data center deploymentsystem requirements, development strategy, validation &deployment processes

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in developing accelerator based HW systems for scale up and scale out data center use cases.
• Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact.

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

• Hands onexperience developing GPU, FPGA basedaccelerator platforms for AI/ML used cases
• Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs),compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.
• Experience with highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet.
• In depthexperience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software).
• Knowledge in virtualization technologies
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
• Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

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 November 30, 2024.

• silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to buildstate-of-the-artaccelerator hardware solutions.
• Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integrationplans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations.
• Define systembehavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations.
• Perform NUDD (new, unique,differentand difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
• Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack.
• Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability,and performance.
• Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner.