Sr. System Engineer

Overview
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 Microsoft's 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 engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's 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 CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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. We are looking for a hardware Sr. System Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Work in the end-to-end hardware solution space, collaborating with cross-functional teams across silicon, platform, and customer groups.
• Design, test, and debug complex hardware technologies for product development.
• Develop guidelines for validation strategies, manufacturing, system bring-up, and system evaluation.
• Lead platform and solution-level discussions to influence product architecture and ensure quality goals for reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, and performance.
• Learn and analyze new interfaces and subsystems, break down complex issues, and collaborate across teams to resolve them promptly.
• Apply statistical analysis methods to identify complex issues affecting features or product design changes and propose solutions to novel problems.
• Own the engineering interface between customers and development teams, including silicon, platform, ODM vendors, and factory test/calibration teams, through test/user scenario development.
• Participate in design reviews between development teams and suppliers.
• Perform New, Unique, Different (NUD) module feature analysis against supplier capabilities and provide risk mitigation for identified gaps and schedule impacts.
• Analyze and evaluate build data for each module engineering build, present summaries to development teams, and adjust test specification limits based on analysis.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications
:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of relevant experience in FPGA and/or embedded system design and validation across all stages of the development and product release cycles.

• 3+ years of experience with hardware, firmware, & software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.

Other Qualifications
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/