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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.

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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team to support hardware development and validation of AI server hardware liquid cooling solutions 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop motherboards and control systems for AI GPU server liquid cooling solutions containing temperature, pressure, and flow sensors, and control actuators.

• Working with suppliers on sensor selection, design, and validation of control systems for rack and server level liquid cooling solutions

• Work with mechanical, thermal and system engineers to develop cooling solutions for next generation AI data centers.

• Develop CPLD RTL code for motherboards and controller boards 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.

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Master's degree in Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Doctorate degree in , Computer Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years’ experience developing and testing motherboards and/or microcontroller systems.

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

Other Requirements:

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:

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

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

• Experience developing control systems for sensors and actuators.

• 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

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .