Prototype Engineer

1 Month ago • 2-5 Years • Research & Development • DevOps • $98,300 PA - $208,800 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft seeks a Prototype Engineer to contribute to its cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include enabling pre-silicon prototype development, initial boot and validation testing (bare metal and OS kernel level), and enabling production firmware/software in pre-silicon environments. The ideal candidate possesses 2+ years (or equivalent education) of relevant experience, including developing hardware interfacing code, debugging, and familiarity with system-on-chip architecture. The role involves working with early hardware/software in prototype and silicon environments, bringing up new product capabilities, and adapting to evolving project needs.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience OR Bachelor's degree + 2 years exp OR Master's degree + 1 year exp
  • Experience developing boot loaders, firmware, test code
  • Good debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Working knowledge of system on chip architecture
  • Enable pre-silicon prototype of silicon development chip
Good to have:
  • Affinity for early/new hardware/software
  • CPU architecture knowledge (Arm, x86)
  • Proficient in C and assembly language
  • JTAG debugging experience
  • Experience bringing up new hardware
  • Experience with PCIe, USB, SPI, I2C, I3C, DDR SDRAM
  • Experience with Armv8-A, Armv9-A, Armv7-M architectures
  • Experience with Trusted Firmware-A, UEFI, U-Boot
  • Experience configuring/optimizing OS on new SoCs/boards (Linux, Windows)
  • Experience with version control, C++, Python
  • Basic hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope/logic analyzer)
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

Job Details

Overview

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, OneDrive, 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 a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a Prototype Engineer 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 prototyping 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 a Prototype Engineer 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.  

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.

 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of related technical engineering experience
    • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
    • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience or internship experience.
  • Experience developing boot loaders, firmware, test code, board support packages, device drivers, or other hardware interfacing code. 
  • Good debugging and problem-solving skills. 
  • Working knowledge of system on chip architecture. 

 

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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:

  • Affinity for working with early/new hardware and software in prototype and silicon environments. Desire to bring up and enable new product capabilities. 
  • Ability to adapt to evolving project requirements. 
  • Working knowledge of a Central Processing Unit(CPU) architecture (Arm, x86, etc..). 
  • Proficient in C and assembly language.
  • Experience using Joint Test Action Group(JTAG) debuggers and their scripting languages to debug SW and HW issues (TRACE32, Arm-DS, OpenOCD, etc.). 
  • Experience bringing up new Hardware(HW). 
  • Experience with Peripheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), Universal Serial Bus(USB), Serial Peripheral Interface(SPI), I2C, I3C and/or Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR SDRAM) internals. 
  • Experience with Armv8-A, Armv9-A, Armv7-M architectures etc. 
  • Experience with Trusted Firmware-A, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), U-Boot, etc. 
  • Experience configuring, optimizing, and bringing up operating systems on new SoCs, new boards, etc. (Linux, Windows). 
  • Experience with a version control system. 
  • Experience with C++, Python. 
  • Basic hardware debugging skills (oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer). 
  • Self-starter. 

 

Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:    

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 23, 2025

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Enabling presilicon prototype of silicon development chip. 
  • Responsible for initial boot and validation testing baremetal and Operating System(OS) kernel level testing. 
  • Responsible for enabling production Firmware(fw)/Software(sw) in presilicon environment.
  • Other
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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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