Senior Hardware 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 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 Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) 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.   

For this role, we are seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer with hardware test experience who will work with Microsoft’s internal teams as well as suppliers to develop, implement and execute qualification plans for Microsoft's world class Azure Cloud Server Systems. Qualification testing will target all aspects of the server environment (BIOS, BMC, Power, Memory, Storage, FPGA, Network, Performance, Stress, etc.) across multiple operating systems.   

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

• As a Qualification Lead, the primary responsibility is to plan and drive execution of server and rack level qualification testing.  This will encompass new products and technologies as well as currently deployed hardware. 

• Collaborate with Systems Engineering and automation ops teams to develop and refine test plans. 

• Provide direction and leadership to supplemental test execution team members. 

• Document and drive build out of qualification test framework environments. 

• Lead root cause analysis through debug activities and drive to resolution issues found during testing 

• Tight coordination with suppliers, vendors and internal teams to effectively plan for testing needs 

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Master's degree in  Computer Engineering,  or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience
• OR Doctorate degree in , Computer Engineering,  or related field.

• 7+ years of experience