System Product Test Engineer

Microsoft • Hillsboro, OR

3d • $102,100 - $202,200

About The Position

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) develops and operates infrastructure and foundational technologies supporting Microsoft’s online businesses and Azure platform. The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization designs, develops, manufactures, and packages computer chips, including Azure Cobalt. The Silicon Manufacturing and Package Engineering team supports hardware manufacturing by improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability. The System Product Test Engineer will help develop solutions for managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, with a focus on system-level testing and product characterization.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and at least 1 year of technical engineering experience; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 2 years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Provide documentation to verify citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected status for eligibility to access export-controlled information; citizenship verification requires a valid passport, while other applicable documents may be used for lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or a master's degree in one of these fields and at least 3 years of technical engineering experience; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 5 years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
• At least 3 years of experience developing integrated circuits, including pre-silicon work, first-silicon bring-up, or new product introduction.
• At least 3 years of product and test engineering experience specializing in System Level Test.
• Understanding of circuits and system hardware.
• Experience with system-level hardware for CPUs, GPUs, or high-performance compute products.
• Knowledge of system-level test architecture and infrastructure requirements, test-case development flows, and test-case generation and selection.
• Communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Understanding of product manufacturing and test processes, system hardware, software and firmware, and board-level schematics.
• Proficiency writing software and scripts using industry-standard languages such as C#, Python, C, or C++.
• Experience taking silicon products from pre-silicon readiness through first-silicon bring-up and production.
• Experience defining, generating, selecting, executing, and analyzing data from system-level test cases.
• Experience defining, generating, selecting, executing, and analyzing data from system-characterization test cases.
• Experience with thermal control and feedback and thermal management of higher-power devices.
• Experience using debug tools such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, SMUs, and VNAs.
• Experience with performance applications on SLT, including power-management features, mode optimization, and voltage margining or checking.
• Experience with data centers, CPUs, AI, machine learning, or digital neural networks.
• Experience with data collection, analysis, and debugging system failures.

Responsibilities

• Support development of system-level test (SLT) and platform strategy, requirements, tools, and methodologies across hardware and software.
• Collaborate with team members and partner teams to develop and integrate hardware, firmware, content, and automation solutions for the SLT platform.
• Perform product characterization and correlate power and performance from system to ATE.
• Use correlation, characterization, and performance data to optimize outgoing quality and power and performance.
• Define, guide, and contribute to development of software automation infrastructure for SLT and system-to-tester correlation activities.
• Manage multiple development activities across a variety of product groups.
• Triage and debug system-level failures across silicon, hardware, and software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level