Device Validation Engineer II

The Microsoft Windows & Devices (W+D) team is on a journey to deliver iconic end-to-end products across hardware, software, and services that people love and use every day. A fundamental part of the W+D strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want. The Windows Silicon & System Integration (WSSI) team within W+D is hiring a Design Validation Engineer who will validate, benchmark breakthrough technological aspects across the Windows ecosystem for cutting-edge silicon. 

Device Validation Engineer II will be involved in multiple facets of silicon development, validation, and support. Including prototyping new designs, validating, debugging new hardware features, SOC bring up, debugging device drivers, performance analysis, and developing automated regression test suites. It is imperative for an ideal candidate to be a self-starter with the ability to facilitate cross-group collaboration across Microsoft internal groups and external partners. Candidate will be interacting with architects, hardware design teams, software and firmware teams, and systems teams for feature definition and refinement, hardware support, optimization, and debugging.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or related field 
• 4+ years experience as a Software Development Engineer, or Test or Validation Engineer, or equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years of experience developing and/or testing products across multiple release cycles in related fields. 
• 4+ years of experience programming or validating using applications or tools developed in C, C++, C#, PowerShell, Python, Visual Basic, Javascript, or similar languages. 
• Professional experience in debugging and validating device drivers on Windows.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills. 
• Experience in collaborating with internal and external partners to understand their requirements and translating them into solutions. 
• Understanding schematics, OS primitives: memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading and ACPI is an added advantage. 
• Knowledge of test automation and SOLID design principles. 
• Experience with Source Control and Azure DevOps is highly desirable. 
• Ability to quickly ramp-up on complex and unfamiliar code.

• Prototyping new designs, validating, debugging new hardware features.  

• SOC bring up, debugging device drivers, performance analysis. 

• Developing automated regression test suites. 

• Develop and modify quality validation plans, procedures, and software tools and programs used to quantify quality metrics. 

• Collaborate with internal groups and quality teams to plan, schedule, and sign-off on engineering releases by assessing risks and making data-driven decisions. 

• Leverage, direct, and evolve external service partners to execute and deliver testing and quality characterizations of device and system driver and firmware updates. 

• Drive the resolution of engineering release blockers by identifying and debugging them.