Sr. Platform Systems 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, One Drive, 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 Senior Platform Systems Engineer to join the team.

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.

** 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. 

+ Lead Platforms Debug to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase.

+ 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.

+ Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations. 

+ Perform hands-on debugging of critical platform-level issues.

+ Develop innovative debugging methodologies for the triage and resolution of issues in remote data centers.

+ 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.

+ Embody our culture ()  and values. ()

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* +  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

** 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** : 

+ 7+ years of relevant experience in system (compute and/or accelerator)…