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Microsoft Corporation Principal Hardware System Engineer in Hyderabad, India
As a Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware designs from concept to data center deployment. Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft’s services teams, cross-discipline design teams focusing on the functional interfaces and developing test cases and qualifying the designs. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.
Responsibilities
Be part of the concept design discussions, gather node/rack system level requirements, clarify interfaces, provide feedback into future design requirements to help develop robust and high-performance cloud hardware solutions.
Lead in cross-boundary issue triage, debug, and resolution.
Gather all the system engineering requirements for the infrastructure components by working with engineering groups and other stakeholders.
Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows.
Work with ODMs, other system engineers, internal design teams and customers to develop validation execution plans for new technologies and MSFT IP features.
Developing quality criteria for different phases of programs
Work with ODMs, Silicon vendors, component suppliers and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugging, and resolving issues.
Review system engineering and validation coverage throughout the lifecycle of the program and publish plan vs. progress reports.
Develop node/rack system level test cases, test requirements against system level requirements and verify them for functionality at node/rack level.
Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. Architect cloud test scenarios and guide software engineers to automate test flows
Qualifications
BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree
15+ years of relevant experience in server systems/platforms design and development for enterprise or cloud market segments.
Minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces.
Strong technical communication skills (verbal and written) to interface with cross-functional technical leads within and/or outside of the organization.
Good understanding of networking, power, rack device management and remote access environments
Experience in performance benchmarking tools such as SPEC workloads, Linpack
Experience in GPUs, and various networking standards including InfiniBand
Good understanding and experience in device drivers and debugging issues related to interactions with HW subsystem
Strong understanding of PCIe and DDR type of HSIO interfaces
In-depth understanding of the PCI Express protocol, specification, and its operation at a system level.
Micro-architecture experience in PCI Express Transaction Layer and strong familiarity with Data Link Layer and Physical Layer
Working knowledge of topics including transaction ordering, virtualization, MMUs, cache coherence, and host bridge functions
Experienced in the operation of logic and protocol analyzer, and protocol exercisers.
Experience with the operation of a PCI Express Root complex, Retimers, Switches, and other components.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in evaluating off the shelf OEM hardware designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform config trade-offs, performance tuning and optimizations is required.
Understanding how standard server interfaces, such as PCIe, SATA, and memory, work with their respective software stacks.
Functional knowledge of secure boot, attestation, FW update & recovery on server platform architectures.
Experience in platform HW and FW security capabilities (RoT) and implementations.
Familiarity with NIST 800 standards as it pertains to FW support for secure update and secure recovery.
Experience in Server platform HW designs or Server platform validation with knowledge of system level firmware, will be an added advantage.
Experience in platform level test architecture and usage of debug tools like (ITP, Arium, ARM JTAG tools or equivalent).
Volume hardware test and debug expertise
Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifying potential fixes down to a board hardware, signal integrity, CPLD, thermal and Firmware components, OS is required.
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