Microsoft Principal Director Systems Engineering 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

766399571

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience leading people.
• BS / MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• 18+ years of relevant experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software).
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
• Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

• Build and support a team of hardware systems engineers.
• Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions.
• Drive Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and 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.
• Experience working in the E2E Solution space of the server design collaborating with several cross functional teams across silicon, Platform, and customer teams.
• Own the engineering interface between the Customer, development teams across silicon, platform, ODM vendors and the factory test/calibration team in the form of a test/user scenario’s development.
• Analyze and evaluate build data for each module engineering build, presenting summary to the development team and adjusting test spec limits based on build analysis.
• Own a calibration source plan for the product, assuring a continuous supply of approved sources for the expected module/system life.