Senior Systems Engineer

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting-edge technology that changes our world. The Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer to work in a team of other hardware and software developers to create systems and modules to be deployed in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. Microsoft provides ample opportunities for developers to have an impact on products that touch the lives of millions of users daily, in a cutting-edge public cloud environment.

As a Systems Engineering team member, you will work directly with engineers across cross-functional teams and deliver hardware designs from concept to data center deployment. Responsibilities will include interacting directly with Microsoft’s services teams, cross-discipline design teams focusing on the functional interfaces and developing test cases and qualifying the designs. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design/validation experience and provide innovative E2E hardware solutions to Microsoft Cloud.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art accelerator hardware solutions.
2. Participate in architectural discussions and evaluate power, thermal and cooling solutions required to meet the demands of AI/ML workloads.
3. Analyze power, thermal and cooling solutions and develop validation and integration plans.
4. Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integration plans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations.
5. Define system behavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations.
6. Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
7. Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack.
8. Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability, and performance.
9. Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

1. 7+ years of technical engineering experience.
2. OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
3. OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
4. OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
5. 5+ years of experience in developing power and thermal solutions for accelerator-based Hardware (HW) systems or compute-based HW systems.
6. 5+ years of integrating, and deploying new hardware technology.

Other:

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

1. Hands-on experience developing GPU, FPGA based accelerator platforms for AI/ML use cases.
2. Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs), compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.
3. Experience in power, thermal and cooling systems.
4. Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet.
5. In-depth experience with characterizing Silicon and system level power consumption based on workloads.
6. Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 5, 2024. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.