Microsoft

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, 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, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. 

• Owns SOC and Platform FW Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC etc.)
• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product in order to meet the defined use cases and KPIs (thermal, power, stability and performance).
• Collaborate with system and FW architects to gather the requirements, translate to validation plans, develop test content, automate executions, and debug/triage of observed/reported failures.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases.
• Deeply collaborate with architect, firmware, program management and component dev teams for day-to-days operations as well as for long term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings
• Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases.
• Create automated dashboards to always reflect “health” and “quality” of system for decision making
• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar. 
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills. 
• Hands on experience in programming in Python or C or C++ 
• 10+ years of working experience in design & architecture, development, validation/testing, and release and performance tuning. 
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, Use-case Validation, features validation, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading. 
• Platform Debugging in Windows or Linux environment. 
• Exposure to CPU’s, GPU’s, end-to-end validation understanding, triaging/resolving customer issues 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in use-case/feature level validation / development in server space is big plus (such as telemetry, RAS, firmware update, BMC). 
• Demonstrated experience in system level Integration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup), automation framework (such as Robot Framework), and debugging of system software 
• Experience of creating validation test plans, developing test content to achieve the validation plan, and automating the execution of test contents. 
• Experience of creating or working with automated testing pipeline aka CI/CD (integration + validation) 
• Experience of firmware development and testing on multiple HW test environments (FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.) 
• Good knowledge of hardware debuggers like JTAG, Oscilloscope, and Logic Analyzer etc. 
• Knowledge of automation framework setup and deployment. 
• Excellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills 
• Debug experience resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues 

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. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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