Senior Systems Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the team.  As a Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware solutions and testing designs.  Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft’s cloud 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. 

Microsoft Silicon + Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE 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. 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. We are looking for engineers with a 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.   

Responsibilities

• Be part of concept design discussions, gathering of node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to develop robust, high-performance cloud hardware solutions. 
• Lead of cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution. 
• Gather all system engineering requirements for infrastructure components by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders. 
• Develop node and rack system level test cases, design tests against system level requirements and verify them for functionality at node and rack level. 
• Architect 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. 
• Development of quality criteria for different phases of programs 
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. 
• Work with ODMs, silicon vendors, other component suppliers and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugg