Senior Hardware Diagnostics Engineer

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 passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives

Central to our mission is development of platforms for Azure Datacenters based on our highly programmable data processing chip (DPU). As a Hardware Diagnostics Engineer, you will be responsible for the development of hardware diagnostics that shall be used to validate all the components of the DPU based systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans to validate new products working closely with Hardware (Silicon & Board Design), Software (Platform & OS) and Mfg. Test Engineers.
• Develop tests and debugging tools to validate the functionality of hardware systems.
• Perform product validation and verification of systems in field or lab environment.
• Prepare and submit test reports highlighting the diags. coverage for various components/ subsystems
• Train the technicians responsible for carrying out testing activities at CM/ ODM site.
• Provide support to the Hardware Test Engineers (DVT) in development of automated test cases.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to understand the hardware functionality through Datasheets, Schematics & Functional Specifications
• 3+ years experience of Linux kernel drivers for IO Peripherals and sensors.
• Ability to work on Linux tools and scripts.
• 3+ years of experience in writing and understanding infrastructure written in Python/ GTK

Other Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 11+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
• Experience working with CM/ODM on manufacturing diags, fault isolation, & RCCAs
• Experience working on BMC/IPMI frameworks and x86 BIOS/ UEFI
• Experience working with traffic generators, PCIe, DDR, SPI & I3C/I2C protocol analyzers
• Windows Programming Experience (Visual Studio+)

Hardware 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Aug 8th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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