Senior Firmware Validation Engineer

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

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new technology in a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission “To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more”? 

The Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation Hardware/Firmware for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. 

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with experience in System on Chip Architecture (SoC), Bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar. 
• 8+ years of professional experience in design/development, integration, validation, or system level debugging in embedded systems  
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills. 
• Hands on experience in programing in Python or C or C++ 
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading. 

 Preferred Qualifications: 

• 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 (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. 
• Excellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills 
• Debug experience resulting in solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues. 

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. 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.

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

• Owns SOC and Platform FW Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC etc.) 
• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product in order to meet the defined use cases and KPIs (thermal, power, stability and performance). 
• Collaborate with system and FW architects to gather the requirements, translate to validation plans, develop test content, automate executions, and debug/triage of observed/reported failures. 
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases. 
• Work 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