Systems Engineer Job in Microsoft

Overview

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) 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-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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree

• 0 to 3 years of experience in server systems/platforms design, development and Validation OR Proven experience in performance engineering

• Hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, OS interfaces, and/or Hands on experience in system performance engineering

• Strong knowledge of performance metrics and benchmarking.

• Strong understanding of software and hardware performance factors.

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

• Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills.

• Familiar with networking, power, rack device management and remote access environments

• Experience in performance benchmarking tools such as SPEC workloads, Linpack

• Experience in GPUs, and various networking standards including InfiniBand

• Experience in windows and Linux operating systems, test automation and Hyperscale testing covering hundreds of Systems under Test.

• Understanding and experience in device drivers and debugging issues related to interactions with HW subsystem

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.

• Functional knowledge of secure boot, attestation, FW update & recovery 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 system level firmware, will be an added advantage.

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

• Volume hardware test and debug expertise

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

• Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages will be addon.

Responsibilities

• Run System Validation and SKU Qualification

• Work with development teams to optimize software and hardware configurations; Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance the performance of existing systems.