System Product Test 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 engineers to help achieve that mission.

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 seasoned engineers 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.

The Microsoft Silicon team is transforming the ways people communicate, create, and collaborate through the devices and components we develop. We are a growing team of engineers on a mission to develop revolutionary designs and ship first-to-market products. Azure, XBOX, Surface, HoloLens, Cobalt 100, and MAIA 100 incorporate our internally developed silicon components.

Our team is creative and resourceful; we value growth and learning. We want to improve your abilities so you can do your best work. Join us, and together we will turn groundbreaking hardware designs into reality!

Responsibilities:

• Support developing system level test (SLT) 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.
• 2+ years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits (pre-silicon, first silicon bring-up, new product introduction).
• 2+ years of experience in product and test engineering, specializing in System Level Test.

Other Requirements

The 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:

• 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 of board level schematics.
• Understanding system level hardware, software and firmware.
• Proficient at writing software and scripts with industry standard languages such as Python, C/C++.
• Experience with:
  • Schematic capture and layout tools and/or PCB design experience.
  • Debugging component level hardware.
  • 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.
  • Data collection/analysis and debugging system failures.

Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 26, 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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