Principal Engineer- Firmware Engineering

Overview

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 Microsofts 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”? 

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.   Our SCHIE team works closely with AI and Azure-Core for bring up of Cobalt-100 and Maia-100 system in Azure Datacentre. 

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.

Responsibilities

• You will be involved with all phases of product validaton including pre-silicon, post-silicon, and platform deployment in the datacenter.
• Collaborate with platform architects, firmware architects, program management and component dev teams for understanding the technical depth of the new features and defining the Test plans/cases, validation Frameworks/Tools/methodology for End-to-end feature readiness
• You will drive, define, implement, and lead execution of firmware integration and validation test plans.
• You will architect and/or submit requirements to define stimulus, test content, and frameworks that will be utilized to conduct testing and establish coverage.
• Optimize platform validation methodology in terms of required test cases, faster debugging/triaging, reducing manual efforts, with enhanced coverage of concurrent/deployment scenarios
• You will mentor, guide, and help peers and other team members.
• You will define flows for platform bring-up in terms of no last moment gaps, aligned with various stakeholders, week over week plans, required features and test scenarios, debug logs methodology, infrastructure requirements
• Work with our partner team from varied disciplines, understand subject matter problems and identify opportunities, build out consensus with the right solution.
• Be a strong advocate for Engineering excellence culture among the team.
• 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 etc.)
• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product.
• 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.
• 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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands on experience in programming in Python or C or C++
• 15+ years of working experience in large scale system design & architecture, development, testing, and release and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience of leading big initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence product roadmap.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience in platform bring-up for complex platforms from system validation perspective for CPU/GPU based platforms.
• Have exposure to both pre-sil and post-sil validation methodology from firmware features validation perspective
  
  

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.)
• Experience of delivering Data-Center class technologies across the entire platform.
• 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
• Experience working on multiple products supporting customer issues with strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Debug experience resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.
  
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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