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 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 HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Hardware Manufacturing Engineering (CHME) 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 Software Dev Engineer for MTE to join the team.

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Responsibilities

This position will be providing Windows related development work for manufacturing test needs using a range of applicable technologies (e.g. programming languages, compilers, assemblers, debuggers etc.), as well as some project/ build related support.

• The engineer will be responsible of the design, scripting and deployment of a Windows based Manufacturing Test software solutions.
• The engineer will interface with technical contacts in Microsoft and its suppliers to resolve engineering issues pertaining to SW/OS/FW/HW.
• The ability to interact with technical providers to drive issues resolution, software structuring/ development in design phases, and influence the team to support new test feature, test coverage and functionalities.
• Concept and experience of software development life cycle and Agile SW methodology.
• In-depth experience in developing automated test solutions in Windows, from test methodology evaluation, test code/scripts/program evaluation & validation, test software development to test release deployment and automation of deployment processes.
• Familiarity with IPMI-based shelf-management in ATCA, including the implementation of Shelf Manager Ethernet Interface.
• Senior technical skills, able to write well-designed, well-structured, testable, efficient code for mfg test.
• Re-write, re-compile and Integrate software components into a fully defined software package.
• Interaction with suppliers on software integration interface and development.
• Work with cross-functional teams on defect management, FA data collection and resolutions.
• Expertise in documenting manufacturing test related specifications/requirements, software development in different product stages.
• Provide project/ build support for server/storage product up to rack/ cluster level as a Manufacturing Test Engineer.
• Interact with both internal design team and suppliers to drive 100% test coverage on Functional Test in both system and rack level tests.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in .NET framework, C#, with component extensions
• 5+ years of experience in programming front end GUI based on SQL or Oracle databases
• 5+ years of experience in database related management work, including ETL, database setup and maintenance etc.
• 3+ years of experience in developing software that works with firmware, BIOS, device drivers, databases, systems, network, operating system, application administration, embedded software/firmware, tools and utilities.
• 3+ Experience in server motherboard manufacturing, systems, rack level hardware and data center hardware deployment process.
• Experience with board bring-up, driver, application development and analysis of in-debug crash data dumps.
• Able to code/debug and guide others to code/debug flexible, scalable and complex programs, using either written or verbal design specifications.
• Able to achieve mastery of new tools, languages and operating systems with some training and on-the-job experience.
• Excellent analytical & debugging skills.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle and Quality Control methodologies. Able to define and document how a specific technical requirement for software development will be implemented and to estimate development timeline given the resources info.
• Able to participate and add value in all phases of software development: feasibility, design, implementation, integration, test and delivery.
• Graduate degree and 4-6 years relevant experience a plus
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Board Management Controllers, OpenBMC software.
• Experience with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
• Experience working with traffic generators, PCIe & I2C protocol analyzers
  

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.