Microsoft Senior Network Systems Engineer 

United States, Washington 

918001856

As a Systems network 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-discipline design teams focusing on the functional interfaces and developing test cases and qualifying the designs.  This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience

  o OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience

  o OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience

  o OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

• 7+ 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.
• Experience leading validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies.
  
• Experience assessing technical risks, driving solutions, and impact assessment.
  
• Experience with RoCEv2 and other networking protocols.
  
• Proven track record of bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology.
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good grasp on the Ethernet - Physical layer, Network layers, Congestion control , QoS, Traffic Classes
• Understanding on CLOS networks, routing protocols - BGP, ECMP, Lossless networks, Congestion handling -DCQCN, PFC, CBFC
  
• Understanding on NPU architecture and relation to network performance like bandwidth, RTT latencies, Packet size diversity
  
• Understanding on Networking hardware - QSFP-dd cables, DACs, AECs, Cable Backplanes, NICs, PHY, Switches
  
• Ability to define validation test cases to qualify end to end network across functionality, performance and scale testing
  
• Ability to trouble shoot network issues at multiple layers - Physical layer, Datalink and Network Layer, Protocol layer
  
• Great to have: Understanding on AI Network, Network Collectives, Traffic profiles in AI networks, Ultra Ethernet

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 August 26, 2024.

• Collaborate with architects to design and develop highly scalable network solutions. Provide feedback as these cutting-edge networks are deployed.
• Create requirements based on architecture and track progress towards meeting those requirements. Partner with hardware designers and network operations teams to validate the quality, stability, and reliability of complex networks.
• Define and set the overall validation strategy for network infrastructure. Drive internal and external teams to develop and execute test plans.
  
• Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
  
• 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.
  
• Develop high quality tooling, automation, performance metrics, and telemetry, at scale
  
• Improve overall network optimization and efficiency through tuning network links, managing link budget, and other methods.
  
• partner closely with cross functional teams to define, assess risks, prioritize, and implement new technologies and features.
  
• Drive teams to consensus to align on key milestones, technical decisions, and integration with a larger solution.
  
• Act as a main technical point of contact for cross functional teams and customers throughout the NPI lifecycle.
• 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,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.

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