Senior Platform Systems Engineer
microsoftRedmond (WA)
Senior Platform Systems Engineer
Posted today
microsoftRedmond (WA)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Overview:
In this role you help design and bring up platform-level hardware and accelerator solutions for Microsoft's cloud. You’ll collaborate with architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, OS, and data-center teams to enable scalable, high-quality hardware for the Intelligent Cloud. You’ll lead debugging and validation efforts across the full stack, shaping platform-level solutions for reliability and performance. This is a hands-on role with impact on cloud infrastructure at scale.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS, manufacturing, and customer teams to build AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions Lead Platforms Debug to address issues encountered during the Product Development Phase Plan and lead System debug activities; define pre-Silicon platform bring up, test and validation execution Own and drive the platform bring up with SOC, test and validation plans & execution Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis with risk assessment and mitigations Perform hands-on debugging of critical platform-level issues Develop innovative debugging methodologies for triage and resolution of issues in remote data centers Drive technical requirements and ensure solutions are flexible and scalable across HW/FW/SW stack Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture toward product goals across quality, reliability, and performance Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies
Key requirements:
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience 7+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred) Experience in system (compute and/or accelerator) level design across the hardware development lifecycle (preferred) Experience leading validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies (preferred) Experience assessing technical risks and driving solutions (preferred) Experience bringing up, integrating, and deploying new hardware technology (preferred) Knowledge of datacenter operations at scale (preferred) Experience leading Platforms Debug Forums (preferred) collaboration across cross-functional teams strong problem-solving and debugging mindset risk assessment and mitigation thinking platform bring-up SOC bring-up and validation system-level debugging
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