Software Engineer

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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.  

The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance and hardware assisted composable architecture compared to the legacy CPU-based alternatives.

We are looking for a software engineer to join the DPU OS nucleus team. The DPU Runtime team’s goal is to provide an advanced, custom runtime that takes advantage of the DPU architecture and provides an SDK for application development. In addition to working with the SoC, the OS team also supports flexible development with emulation and simulation for pre-silicon, as well as rapid scalable application development. 

Microsoft’s 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

Responsibilities

• Develop a well defined simulator based on Qemu and POSIX infrastructure that mimic current and future DPU pre-production silicon/systems
• Understand new features set and analyze best approach to implement and verify with simulated environment and keep in sync with SoC development
• Work with engineering teams to identify future requirements for infrastructure, performance, and test frameworks
• Analyze and provide architecture and performance feedback with both software and hardware aspects for future improvement
• Contribute to specialized OS development, maintainability and technical documentation
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  o OR equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of debugging tools, such gdb, Jtag, and operate lab test equipment
• Experience using and modifying Qemu to simulate or debug embedded environments
• Knowledge of common embedded system technology, such as UART, I2C, SPI, DMA, IRQ, memory sub-system

Other Requirments:

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.  

Addtional Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience working in projects related to real-time system, software system architecture, preferable knowledge in drivers and kernel
• Familiar with cross platform and distributed systems
• Experience with development tools, such as Make, cross-compiler, Git, Jira, wiki, Confluence
• Self starter, c