Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, 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 trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) 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 strong 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 Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team to support hardware validation, motherboard CPLD code development and influence future generations of AI hardware. Our team collaborates across different organizations in Azure to support design of custom AI and compute hardware. We immensely value culture, mentorship, and acting as a unified team. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing HW design experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

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Responsibilities

· Develop CPLD RTL code for Host Motherboards that implements custom power up, reset and management functions.

· Write CPLD validation infrastructures, test benches, bus models and IO transaction models.

· Work with internal and external partners to define and specify board level validation and test requirements and ensure execution.

· Work with partner teams to support silicon bringup and silicon validation.

· Work with partner teams to create bring-up, test, and end-to-end system validation plans to ensure complete board level coverage.

· Collaborate with partner ODM/OEM companies in test, debug, and validation area.

· Plan lab, system hardware, test equipment, and test content availability for validation.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

· 5+ years’ experience developing and testing CPLD/FPGA code.

· 5+ years’ experience developing and testing HW power on, reset, and board management functionality.

· 5+ years’ experience developing CPLD/FPGA test benches and bus models.

· Experience debugging CPLD/FPGA code deployed in data centers.

· Experience with basic board level electrical validation.

· Experience using high-speed scopes, Logic Analyzers, etc.

· Experience executing HW validation and functional test plans.

· Experience working across disciplines and organizations

· Fundamental knowledge of the following HW design principles: Electrical Engineering, Computer Architecture

· Excellent Team Player

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience with high volume hardware production.

· Experience leading planning and running regular status and execution meetings.

· Experience SoC BIOS/FW

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