Senior Systems Engineer

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 partnersworldwideand we are looking for passionateengineers to help achieve that mission.

Microsofts Hardware Systems organization is developing AI-native silicon and hyperscale systems designed to power the next generation of frontier AI models. The MAIA platform combines custom silicon high-performance networking advanced compiler technologies and large-scale system infrastructure to enable industry-leading AI training and inference.

The Platform Systems Engineering (PSE) team is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer who will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware designs from concept to datacenter deployment. Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsofts 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.

You will work closely with silicon architects compiler teams runtime developers performance engineers validation teams and AI framework developers to translate platform requirements into scalable tooling and workload solutions.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Collaborate with architecture silicon engineering firmware hardware design and validation 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 develop integration plans evaluate power efficiency debug integration issues and provide technical recommendations.
• Define system behavior and platform concepts of operation to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software serviceability telemetry and customer expectations.
• Perform new unique different and difficult (NUDD) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Drive technical requirements and ensure solutions are flexible and scalable across the hardware firmware and software stack.
• Drive platform- and solution-level technical discussions contribute to product architecture and deliver against product goals for quality reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with internal external and open-source partners to seamlessly onboard innovative technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 5 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with ARM- or x86-based server hardware architecture SoC development high-speed interfaces such as DDR HBM PCIe or Ethernet and hardware firmware and operating system interactions.
• 5 experience troubleshooting complex system-level issues and conducting root-cause analysis across areas such as board hardware signal integrity CPLD/FPGA thermal firmware or operating system components.
• 5 of experience with platform-level test architectures and debugging tools such as Lauterbach Arium ARM JTAG tools OpenOCD or programming or scripting languages such as Perl Python or shell scripting.

Other Qualifications:

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:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
• Experience with post-silicon validation platform bring-up system integration or server platform validation.
• Experience evaluating OEM hardware designs including hardware firmware and operating system interactions platform configuration trade-offs performance tuning or optimization.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces and technologies such as CXL PCIe DDR E1.S or Ethernet.
• Experience with Windows or Linux operating systems system firmware such as BIOS or BMC or hardware and software system security.
• Experience with workload measurement methodologies or benchmarks such as SPEC CPU Linpack or FIO.
• Understanding of AI and machine learning workloads or experience validating related software stacks such as TensorFlow.
• Effective written and verbal technical communication skills including experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams.

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Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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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.

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