The Platform Systems Engineering (PSE) team at Microsoft is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to work on AI-native silicon and hyperscale systems. This role involves collaborating with various engineering teams to deliver hardware designs from concept to datacenter deployment. The engineer will focus on integrating hardware solutions that meet the needs of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. This position offers an opportunity to leverage existing hardware design and validation experience while contributing to innovative end-to-end hardware solutions.

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with ARM- or x86-based server hardware architecture, SoC development, and high-speed interfaces such as DDR, HBM, PCIe, or Ethernet.
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting complex system-level issues and conducting root-cause analysis across areas such as board hardware, signal integrity, CPLD/FPGA, thermal, firmware, or operating system components.
• 5+ years of experience with platform-level test architectures and debugging tools such as Lauterbach, Arium, ARM JTAG tools, OpenOCD, or programming or scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or shell scripting.

• Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design and validation, operating systems, manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions.
• Analyze new interfaces and subsystems, develop integration plans, evaluate power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide technical recommendations.
• Define system behavior and platform concepts of operation to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Azure datacenter software, serviceability, telemetry, and customer expectations.
• Perform new, unique, different, and difficult (NUDD) technology and feature analysis, and provide risk assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Drive technical requirements and ensure solutions are flexible and scalable across the hardware, firmware, and software stack.
• Drive platform- and solution-level technical discussions, contribute to product architecture, and deliver against product goals for quality, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to seamlessly onboard innovative technologies.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.