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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 a System Product Test Engineer to help achieve that mission.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Silicon Manufacturing and Package 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 a System Product Test Engineer 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 System Product Test Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

Support developing system level test (SLT) and platform, strategy, requirements, tools, methodologies across hardware and software.

Collaborating with team members and partner teams to develop and integrate hardware, firmware, content, and automation solution for SLT platform.

Product characterization and correlation for power/performance from system to ATE.

Generate and leverage correlation, characterization, and performance data to optimize outgoing quality and power/performance.

Define, guide, and contribute to the development of the software automation infrastructure for SLT and system to tester correlation activities.

Management of multiple development activities across a variety of product groups.

System level failure triage and debug across silicon, hardware, software.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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.

This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications:

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

3+ years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits (pre-silicon, first silicon bring-up, new product introduction).

3+ years of experience in product and test engineering, specializing in System Level Test

Understanding of circuits and system hardware.

Experience with system level hardware for products in any of the following categories: CPUs, GPUs, high performance compute.

Knowledge of system level test architecture, infrastructure (i.e., hardware and software) requirements, test case development flows, test case generation and selection.

Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.

Understanding of product manufacturing and test processes.

Understanding system hardware, software and firmware.

Understanding of board level schematics.

Proficient at writing software and scripts with industry standard languages such as C#, Python, C/C++.

Experience with: End-to-end silicon engineering taking products from pre-silicon readiness to first silicon bring up and production.

System level test cases (SLT) definition/generation/selection/execution and data analysis

System characterization test case definition/generation/selection/execution and data analysis

Thermal control and feedback

Thermal management of higher power devices

Debug tools such as oscilloscope, DMM, SMU, VNA

Performance (i.e., power management features, mode optimization, voltage margining/checking) applications on SLT

Datacenters, CPUs, AI, machine learning, digital neural networks would be an asset.

Data collection/analysis and debugging system failures.

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Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.