Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Platform System Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
7+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company known for its innovative cloud solutions and infrastructure engineering. The Principal Platform System Engineer will lead a team of engineers to design and implement hardware solutions for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, ensuring high quality and efficiency while collaborating with various teams to achieve operational success.
Application Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentData ManagementDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Exhibit strong technical leadership while efficiently overseeing a team of highly skilled engineers in the role of a Technical Lead
Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions
Plan and lead System debug activities. Work with cross organization teams in defining pre Silicon platform bring up, test and validation execution. Own and drive the platform bring up with SOC, test and validation plans & execution
Be able to lead and cross functional/cross org work groups leading innovative solutions and solving complex problems
Analyze new interfaces and subsystems to develop integration plans, analyze power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide recommendations
Define system behavior and concept of operations for the platform to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations
Perform NUDD (new, unique, different, and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations
Drive technical requirements and ensure the solution is flexible and scalable across the full (HW/FW/SW) stack
Enable platform and solution level discussions, influencing architecture of the product, and delivering to product goals across quality, reliability, and performance
Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner
Perform hands-on debugging of critical platform-level issues
Develop innovative debugging methodologies for the triage and resolution of issues in remote data centers
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
OR equivalent experience
8+ years of relevant experience in compute and/or AI systems/platforms design and development
8+ years of relevant experience in SOC development
8+ years of hands-on experience in compute and/or AI hardware architecture, design, development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and Operating System (OS)
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Excellent collaboration and communications skills being able to partner across Organizations
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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