Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

　　Azure SCHIE’s (Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering) Platform Firmware Engineering team is responsible for definition, design, and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure firmware that manages Microsoft’s Data-Center / cloud hardware. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO).

　　We are looking for highly motivated System integration and validation Engineers with background in Firmware development, integration and validation in embedded systems.

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　　Responsibilities

　　Owns coordination, Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of system software comprising of different domains within server architecture (BIOS, BMC, TPM etc.)

　　Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate integrated firmware/system software for the architectural goals of product.

　　Create validation plans, develop, automate & execute test cases along with debug/triage of observed/reported failures.

　　Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases.

　　Deeply collaborate with architect, firmware, program management and component development teams for day-to-days operations as well as for long term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings

　　Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases.

　　Qualifications

　　BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience

　　8+ years of professional experience in design/development, integration, validation, or system level debugging in embedded systems

　　Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

　　Hands on experience in programming in Python or C and Automation Frameworks such as Robot

　　Desired Qualifications:

　　Demonstrated experience in system level Integration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup), automation framework (such as Robot Framework), and debugging of system software.

　　Experience in validation / development in server space is big plus.

　　Experience in creating validation test plans, Engineering Spec, developing test content to achieve the validation plan and automating the execution of test content.

　　Exposure and good understanding of Hardware and Firmware / Software Lifecycle

　　Experience in validating Embedded Controllers, BMC, Device Drivers, Firmware, Kernel and Drivers, Systems Software with focus on quality, performance, reliability, availability and serviceability

　　Experience in creating or working with automated testing pipeline aka CI/CD (integration + validation)

　　Experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding in managing and triaging production level issues.

　　System Hardware knowledge and experience in industry standard bus architectures such as PCIe, NVMe, SM Bus, I2C etc

　　Familiarity and experience with industry standard specifications such as IPMI, Redfish, PLDM, RDE etc is a plus

　　Excellent communication and inter team collaboration skills.

　　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.

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