Senior Hardware Systems Engineer

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Embedded Systems

In short

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer for their Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering team to develop systems and modules for Azure Cloud. This role involves planning, designing, and executing system validation for cutting-edge HW solutions, driving automation, and collaborating with OEMs/ODMs.

Responsibilities

Plan, design, and execute system validation plans and test frameworks for state-of-the-art HW solutions.
Drive continuous improvement in testing, validation, and debug methodology through automation and AI.
Work with OEMs/ODMs and system engineers on system validation, SKU qualification, scale testing, and debugging.
Perform hands-on validation and debug work in the laboratory with test engineers.
Identify, triage, and resolve server subsystem faults, driving root cause analysis and implementing fixes.
Develop automation and tooling for server validation in collaboration with other teams.
Develop application/system software, libraries, and drivers to interface with firmware/hardware devices.
Handle DevOps responsibilities, including occasional on-call duties for production issue resolution.

Requirements

BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree.
7+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms development and validation.
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in server hardware validation architecture, test infrastructure development, test case writing, automation, and test execution.
2+ years of experience in programming languages like Python/PowerShell for automation development.
Solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces and interdependencies, CPU/GPU architectures, and system design concepts.
Strong technical communication skills.
Understanding of OTD (Observability, Testability, and Debuggability).
Familiarity with PCIe, memory subsystems, networking, power management, and device management.
Experience with performance benchmarking tools (SPEC workloads, Linpack, AI workloads).
Experience defining custom HW tools for validation or debug.
Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills with hands-on experience in debug and measurement tools (Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, PCIe analyzers).
Experience developing benchmarking/system software tools with C/C++.
Experience in one or more platform domains (Security, CXL, PCIE, Networking, Storage, Performance, Power Management, RAS, Platform Debug).
Knowledge of Windows and Linux internals.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in evaluating hardware designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform config trade-offs, and E2E error flows.
Experience in debugging complex system level issues related to board hardware, thermal, and firmware components.
Experience with data analytics, data collection/aggregation, and dashboarding.
Ability to trace issues across firmware, drivers, and OS.
Familiarity with one or more system level protocols (ACPI, I2C, PCI).
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 FW support for secure update and secure recovery.
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.
Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages will be an addon.
System level perspective, hardware & software interaction.
Collaboration, drive for results.

Benefits

Opportunities to impact products touching millions of users daily.
Work in a cutting-edge public cloud environment.
Ample opportunities for developers to grow their hardware design/validation experience.
Provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.

Skills

PythonPowerShellC/C++PCIeSPEC workloadsLinpackLogic AnalyzersOscilloscopesPCIe analyzersACPII2CPCIARM JTAG tools

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