Senior Platform Systems Engineer
Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 3+ years
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 engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for a Senior Platform Systems Engineer with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
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.
- Lead Platforms Debug to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase.
- Plan and lead System debug activities. Work with cross organization teams in defining pre-Silicon platform bring up, test and validation execution.
- Own and drive the platform bring up with SOC, test and validation plans & execution.
- Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
- Perform hands-on debugging of critical platform-level issues.
- Develop innovative debugging methodologies for the triage and resolution of issues in remote data centers.
- 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience
Other Requirements:
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of technical engineering experience
- 7+ years of relevant experience in system (compute 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.
- Proven track record of bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology.
- Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
- Experience in Leading Platforms Debug Forums to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase.
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Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.