Principal Hardware System Engineer Post by Microsoft

Job Description

Date posted: Mar 15, 2024

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Individual Contributor

Profession: Hardware Engineering

Discipline: Hardware Engineering

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview: 

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
• 15+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms design and development for enterprise or cloud market segments.
• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces.
• 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.
• Good understanding of 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
• Good understanding and experience in device drivers and debugging issues related to interactions with HW subsystem
• Strong understanding of PCIe and DDR type of HSIO interfaces
• Working experience in Windows and Linux operating systems, test automation and Hyperscale testing covering hundreds of Systems under Test.

Preferred Qualification: 

• 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 as it 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.

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Responsibilities:

• Be part of the concept design discussions, gather node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to help develop robust and high-performance cloud hardware solutions.
• Lead in cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution.
• Gather all the system engineering requirements for the infrastructure components by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders.
• Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
• Work with ODMs, other system engineers, internal design teams and customers to develop validation execution plans for new technologies and MSFT IP features.
• Developing quality criteria for different phases of programs
• Work with ODMs, Silicon vendors, component suppliers and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugging, and resolving issues.
• Review system engineering and validation coverage throughout the lifecycle of the program and publish plan vs. progress reports.
• Develop node/rack system level test cases, test requirements against system level requirements and verify them for functionality at node/rack level.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows