Technical Support Engineer

About Supermicro

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community.

We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community.

We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Join us in supporting our Global Service network and help us build a world-class field engineering organization. This position requires seasoned enterprise software and hardware technical knowledge and understanding, to be Service oriented, and Quality experienced Engineer. The Engineer will help maintain technical information, provide technical information to education and service teams, and may assist with teaching and presenting technical hardware/software to many audiences.

Your primary role will be handling escalation issues from our Service help desk department. Understanding the root cause from an engineering and quality perspective, as well as helping solve complex issues and providing these solutions throughout the service teams. You will be working alongside Product managers, architects, engineers, developers, logistics teams, quality teams, and service teams to help bridge and close the gap between engineering and customer escalation issues.

Your impact will be directly responsible for ensuring our commitment to product quality, service, and engineering excellence.

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Support global customers and service teams. Must be able to work swing and graveyard shifts and, depending on assignment, may be required to work weekends.
• Troubleshoot and isolate x86 component issues, including CPU, memory, PSU, and motherboard failures.
• Analyze debug logs and system information related to OS, CPU, memory, motherboard, GPU, PCIe, and AOC-related issues.
• Understand BMC chip functionality and utilize various BMC tools and software for troubleshooting and diagnostics.
• Assist with resolving issues escalated from the L1 team.
• Apply troubleshooting methodologies, including system log analysis, error code interpretation, and diagnostic tool utilization.
• Support root cause analysis, triage, and postmortem investigations through lab testing, engineering collaboration, and daily issue tracking until root cause is identified.
• Work closely with the L3 team to isolate and resolve complex product issues.
• Escalate issues to L3 when resolution cannot be achieved. Ensure all required logs, details,
• Maintain organization and prioritization of service escalations, documentation, records, and test logs for review.
• Clearly communicate technical issues, findings, and resolutions to customers, engineering teams, and management.
• Perform basic configuration and troubleshooting of iSCSI, multipath fiber, RoCE, SAS, and network switches.
• Create test plans, SOPs, best practice guides,…