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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, 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.\nAs 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 a Senior Platform Systems 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.\nResponsibilities\nCollaborate 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. \nLead Platforms Debug to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase. \nPlan and lead System debug activities. Work with cross organization teams in defining pre-Silicon platform bring up, test and validation execution. \nOwn and drive the platform bring up with SOC, test and validation plans & execution. \nPerform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations. \nPerform hands-on debugging of critical platform-level issues. \nDevelop innovative debugging methodologies for the triage and resolution of issues in remote data centers. \nDrive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack. \nEnable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability, and performance. \nCollaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nMaster'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 \nOR equivalent experience \n\nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n7+ years of technical engineering experience \n7+ years of relevant experience in system (compute and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle. \nExperience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system. \nExperience leading validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies. \nExperience assessing technical risks, driving solutions, and impact assessment. \nProven track record of bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology. \nKnowledge about datacenters & operations at scale. \nExperience in Leading Platforms Debug Forums to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase. \n#SCHIE #CHSE #azurehwjobs\nHardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\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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