Senior 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. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Manufacturing Test Tool Development team, developing and automating test contents which supports stress, functional and configuration testing for our AI products.  Join us in this exciting AI revolution and be part of the infrastructure engineering taskforce to fuel this world changing 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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support test tools and programs through automation and code development to screen server system components at manufacturing.
• Support and extend a robust workflow framework to ensure product quality.
• Work with manufacturing test engineers to develop and support existing test solutions to enable novel testing following the assembly process of PCBAs, storage enclosures, and racked assemblies within the ODM & Contract Manufacturer sites.
• Work with peer developers and Architects to develop robust, maintainable, and stable code in a CI/CD environment.
• Partner with other developers and data scientist to filter, analyze, and interpret data from manufacturing and data centers.
• Work with hardware engineers, FW developers, tool developers, validation engineers and component suppliers to come up with a most efficient and effective test content for manufacturing
• Drive test optimizations to increase manufacturing throughput and reduce the cost without compromising product quality level.
• Able to take on difficult challenges and communicate across organizational boundaries.
• Interface with internal reliability and qualification teams to drive parity between test coverage from reliability and qualification to manufacturing.
• Leads the development of tests to catch manufacturing defects and ensures reusability of existing tests
• Drives improvement of effectiveness and efficiency by leveraging information gathered from process/test-system to identify and remove non-value elements from products. · Defines key performance indicators (KPIs), determines how to evaluate metrics, and translates decisions into business value (e.g., return on investment [ROI]).
• Oversees implementation of set target/test cases, rationalizes cost of targets and maps targets to customer impact.
• Works across teams to ensure that verification process is stable enough that there is enough time in the schedule to fully complete verification.
• Ensures that each program/product has documentation specifying what needs to be tested and covered at all product stages.
• Ensures adequate test coverage to prevent escapes.
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