Hardware Qualification Engineer- Cloud HW

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. 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, 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 seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are seeking a candidate with hardware test experience who can work with Microsoft’s internal teams as well as suppliers to develop and implement qualification plans and test cases for Microsoft's CHIE Server Systems. Testing will target all aspects of the server environment (BIOS, BMC, Power, Memory, Storage, FPGA, Network, Performance, Stress, etc.) across multiple operating systems.

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, Computer Engineering or Master’s degree preferred – or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in hardware validation (planning, documentation, development, execution, and debug)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of server system / rack system architectures
• Knowledge of networking, power, rack management and remote access environments
• Experience Managing teams to perform on multiple programs simultaneously
• Experience integrating and validating PCBAs, hardware components and/or systems
• Familiar with and able to develop scripts (Python, PowerShell) and routines to enable and accelerate data collection and data reduction via automation
• Self-motivated individual, must be able to work collaboratively in team environment and across internal divisions and industry (OEM, ODM), demonstrate technical leadership in driving successful product development

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Drive build out and documentation of qualification test bed environments (KVM/IP, 40/50/100GbE, InfiniBand, Rack management, Power, Remote access, etc.)
• Build out of Virtualization infrastructure to support qualification test bed environments
• Work with CSI Systems engineering and Automation teams to develop/enhance test cases for current and new technologies.
• Debug and drive to resolution issues related to the qualification of Microsoft’s CSI servers
• Work with suppliers and internal teams on resolving issues
• Interact with multiple teams inside and outside of Microsoft