Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team is seeking a highly motivated senior hardware systems engineer to work in a team of other hardware and software developers to create systems and modules to be deployed in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. Microsoft provides ample opportunities for developers to have an impact on products that touch the lives of millions of users daily, in a cutting-edge public cloud environment.

　　As a Systems 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-disciplined 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.

　　Responsibilities

　　Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions.

　　Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integration plans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations.

　　Define system behavior 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, contributing to 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.

　　Qualifications

　　Required Qualifications:

　　BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree

　　7+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms design and development for enterprise or cloud market segments.

　　Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in ARM/x86 based Server hardware architecture, SOC development and/or DDR, PCIe and other high-speed interface with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces.

　　Experience in Post Silicon validation, Platform bring up, System Integration, functional validation and Server Platform Validation.

　　Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifying potential fixes.

　　Strong technical communication skills (verbal and written) to interface with cross-functional technical leads within and/or outside of the organization.

　　Experience in platform level test architecture and usage of debug tools like (Lauterbach, Arium, ARM JTAG tools, OpenOCD or equivalent).

　　Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifying potential fixes down to a board hardware, signal integrity, CPLD/FPGA, thermal and Firmware components, OS is required.

　　Programming Skills : Perl / Python / Shell Scripting.

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　Experience in evaluating off the shelf OEM hardware designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform config trade-offs, performance tuning and optimizations is required.

　　Understanding how standard server interfaces, such as PCIe, SATA, and memory, work with their respective software stacks, virtualization.

　　Functional knowledge of secure boot, attestation, FW update & recovery and Confidential Computing on server platform architectures.

　　Experience in platform HW and FW security capabilities (RoT) and implementations.

　　Familiarity with NIST 800 standards pertains to FW support for secure update and secure recovery.

　　Experience in Server platform HW designs or Server platform validation with knowledge of BMC, system level firmware, will be an added advantage.

　　Volume hardware test and debug expertise.

　　Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .