Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, 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 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. 

  If you are an experienced engineer with passion for building highly reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want hands-on firmware validation experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then the Senior Firmware Validation Engineer is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for you!!! Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure. 

 This is expected to be a hands on role, where you will have the opportunity to work with a team of extremely talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product to Azure datacenters. 

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Responsibilities

• Owns coordination, Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of system software comprising of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC, Rack Manager etc.)

• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product

• Create validation plans, develop test content, automate executions, and debug/triage of observed/reported failures

• Debugging and troubleshooting skills with aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequentreleases

• Deeply collaborate with architect, firmware, program management and component dev teams for day-to-days operations as well as for long term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings

• Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases.

• Create automated dashboards to always reflect “health” and “quality” of system for decision making.

• Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, C, or C++.

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of professional experience in design/development, integration, validation, or system level debugging in embedded systems

• Problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

• Hands on experience in programing in Python or C or C+ Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python C, or C++.

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, C, or C++ OR equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated experience in system level Integration, validation (including validation infrastructure setup), automation framework (such as Robot Framework), and debugging of system software

• Experience in validation / development in server space is big plus.

• Experience of creating validation test plans, developing test content to achieve the validation plan, and automating the execution of test contents.

• Experience of creating or working with automated testing pipeline aka CI/CD (integration + validation)

• Experience of firmware development and testing on multiple HW test environments (Boards, FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.)

• Have deep experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding of managing and triaging production level issues.

• Good knowledge of hardware debuggers like JTAG, Oscilloscope, and Logic Analyzer etc.

• Knowledge of automation framework setup and deployment.

• Effective communication and inter-team collaboration skills

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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