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SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 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.\nAre 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”?\nThe Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. 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.\nWe are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer with experience in System on Chip Architecture (SoC), SoC data analytics, triage policies and dashboard development to debug multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.\nResponsibilities\nOwns SOC(CPU/GPU) and Platform data analytics and debugging of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC etc.) \nAbility to see system level “big picture” to debug the integrated firmware/system software based on architectural goals of product to segregate hardware vs software problems. \nCollaborate with system and FW architects to gather the debug requirements, translate them to AI skills, framework and utilities to fulfil the requirements. \nExcellent development, debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for fleet debug. \nWork with architect, firmware, program management and component dev teams for day-to-days operations as well as for long-term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings \nPassionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve debug methodologies, problem segregation and efficiency of our remediation flows. \nQualifications\nBachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar. \n6+ years of professional experience in CPU/GPU or system level development/debugging in embedded systems \n4+ years of Programing in linux/windows environment using C or C++ \nStrong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills. \nExperience 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.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDemonstrated experience in system level design, development and debugging of system software. \nExperience in platform debug and telemetry-based analytics in server space is big plus. \nExperience of creating debug flows, as per the requirement. \nExperience of creating or working with pipelines aka CI/CD (development + unit testing) \nExperience of firmware development on multiple HW test environments (FPGA, Emulation, Simulation etc.) \nHave deep experience of system level debugging (including customer issues) with good understanding of managing and triaging production level issues. \nExcellent communication and inter-team collaboration skills \nDebug experience resulting in solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues. \nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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