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Principal Hardware System Validation Engineer - Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Oct 1, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA • Hillsboro, OR, USA • Mountain View, CA, USA
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Microsoft's Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team is seeking a Principal Hardware Systems Validation Engineer to develop and validate cutting-edge hardware solutions for the Azure Cloud, ensuring high quality, reliability, and service level requirements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience in server systems/platforms development and validation for enterprise or cloud market segments.
  • 8+ years of experience with hardware, firmware, and OS interfaces and interdependencies, different CPU and GPU architecture and system design concepts.
  • 5+ years of experience in technical leadership role for end-to-end system validation and building test frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of OTD (Observability, Testability, and Debuggability).
  • Familiar with different technology areas including but not limited to networking, power management, rack device management, remote device management
  • Experience in performance benchmarking tools such as SPEC workloads, Linpack, AI workloads
  • Hands on experience in debug and measurement tools such as Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, PCIe analyzers.

Responsibilities

  • Develop System Validation plans for Azure's leading HW solutions by incorporating advanced technologies, datacenter use cases and by working across different engineering functions.
  • Architecting and developing efficient test and debug frameworks for cutting edge technologies.
  • Building test and debug automation.
  • Partnering with leading technology providers to define test and debug strategies.
  • Driving unified and efficient test, validation and debug methodologies across product segments.
  • Define and Develop System validation architecture, test frameworks, and test plans for complex HW solutions based on CPU/GPU applications to achieve holistic test coverage and efficient debugging.
  • Drive defect triaging, debugging, and resolution for cross functional issues.

Other

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Proven technical communication skills (verbal and written) to interface with cross-functional technical leads within and/or outside of the organization.
  • Self-motivated individuals must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment and across internal divisions and industry (OEM, ODM), demonstrated technical leadership in driving successful product designs.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment