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, One Drive, 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 trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate 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 Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellent Taiwan 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 Validation Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Validate firmware across multiple phases from suppliers for deployment in DC.
• Participate in firmware signing via ESRP and AKV for SHA2-512 and SHA3-512 hashing.
• Address bugs raised by Engineering Groups and coordinate with suppliers and ODMs.
• Develop tools and scripts for automating test result processing and dashboard creation.
• Engage with suppliers and EGs to enhance test coverage for security features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of memory/storage industry or enterprise/cloud server experience
• B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Sciences or Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• Hand on Cloud Server system validation of FW, security and platform.
• Understanding of the storage protocols (SCSI, SAS, SATA).
• Experience with SSD/HDD validation, HBA, Expander, performance testing and white-box testing.
• Familiar with lab test setups and hardware.

• Proven software and script development skills: C/C++ Programming, Python Scripting.
• Windows/Linux driver/kernel development experience (C/C++)
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with a global team
• Ability to distill complex information in simple, easy-to-understand ways
• Historical demonstration of a growth mindset

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