Senior Systems Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Systems Engineer (hardware systems validation)

Description

You will develop system validation plans for Azure’s leading hardware solutions, working across hardware and software engineering functions. The role focuses on designing and implementing scalable test and debug frameworks, building validation automation, and defining strategies to verify software and hardware functionality, performance, reliability, and cloud-scale quality requirements. You will also drive end-to-end root-cause analysis using code, logs, telemetry, and system behavior.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and reliable solutions for server platforms and CPU/GPU-based systems
• Build application/system software, APIs, libraries, drivers, diagnostic tools, and test frameworks interfacing with firmware and hardware
• Write extensible, reusable code and lead design/code reviews to ensure quality, performance, reliability, and best practices
• Architect and develop automation frameworks and tooling for system validation, hardware qualification, failure analysis, and large-scale testing
• Define and execute system validation strategies for integration, performance, reliability, and cloud-scale quality requirements
• Troubleshoot complex software and system issues and drive end-to-end root-cause analysis with cross-functional teams
• Use automation, data analytics, and AI capabilities to improve test coverage and debugging
• Collaborate on platform integration, system validation, SKU qualification, scale testing, and product delivery with software, hardware, firmware, and OEM/ODM partners
• Provide technical leadership in software design, development, debugging, and validation while improving tools, processes, and product quality

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience)
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or related)
• 6+ years relevant experience in server systems/platforms development and validation for enterprise/cloud segments
• 3+ years hands-on experience in server hardware validation architecture, test infrastructure, test cases, automation, and executing tests
• 2+ years experience programming with Python/PowerShell (or similar) for automation development/integration
• Strong understanding of hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces and CPU/GPU architecture
• Strong understanding of Observability, Testability, and Debuggability (OTD)
• Familiarity with PCIe, memory subsystems, networking, power management, rack device management, remote device management
• Experience with benchmarking tools (SPEC workloads, Linpack, AI workloads)
• Experience defining custom hardware tools for validation or debugging
• Windows and Linux experience
• Advanced troubleshooting and hands-on use of debug/measurement tools (Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, PCIe analyzers)
• Experience developing benchmarking/system software tools with C/C++ for PCs/server platforms
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux internals (thread services such as priority, affinity, synchronization, atomics)
• Experience evaluating HW designs, HW/FW/OS interactions, platform configuration trade-offs, and E2E error flows
• Experience debugging system-level issues involving board hardware, thermal, and firmware components
• Experience with data analytics, data collection/aggregation, and dashboarding
• Ability to trace issues across firmware, drivers, and OS and communicate with partner teams

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (details provided via the company careers pay information page).