Principal Platform Systems Engineer - Microsoft

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 Microsofts 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.

We are looking for a Principal Platform Systems Engineer to join the team.

As Microsofts 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. We are looking for seasoned 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.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience including technical leadership in compute and/or AI hardware architecture, design, development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and Operating System (OS).

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: 

• 10+ years of relevant experience in SOC development
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in compute and/or AI hardware architecture, design, development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and Operating System (OS).
• Excellent collaboration and communications skills being able to partner across Organization

Hardware Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year.    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 8, 2024. 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions. 
• Plan and lead System debug activities. Work with cross organization teams in defining pre Silicon platform bring up, test and validation execution. Own and drive the platform bring up with SOC, test and validation plans & execution.  
• Be able to lead cross functional/cross org work groups leading innovative solutions and solving complex problems.
• Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integration plans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations. 
• Define system behavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations. 
• Perform NUDD (new, unique, different, and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations. 
• Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack. 
• Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability, and performance. 
• Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner.