Hardware Engineer 2
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Jan 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft's cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy? Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft's Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. The SPARC organization manages Azure's hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft's current and future on-line services. We are looking for a Hardware Engineer II to join the System Architecture team focusing on power and performance aspects of Microsoft's Azure hardware systems deployed in various data centres across the globe 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.
Responsibilities Work with business, architecture, and design teams to understand power and performance requirements and collaborate across functional teams to meet these needs in technology development planning and path finding.Work with platform, firmware, and software teams across Microsoft to identify opportunities to improve system power and performance management with a goal of improved power efficiency across the stack.Develop in-house power and performance modelling methodology and tools for Machine Learning systems.Project and report power constrained SOC performance results to senior management.Maintain the power modeling infrastructure, used for power constrained performance projections.Work with IP Micro-architects and RTL team to incorporate low power design methodologies and power saving techniques. Identify IP/SOC power saving opportunities and drive definition of power saving uArch features.Understand product SOC power and performance interactions with power delivery and thermal solutions at the system level.Use case profiling, cloud computing workload analysis and PnP modeling, and correlation to post-silicon.Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.Identify performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and implement improvements to enhance performance.Come up with dashboards to maintain Power-Performance visualization and build infrastructure for improving the analysis frameworkGuide teams in designing, building, testing, and deploying changes to existing software.Identify manual processes that can be automated.Consider the organization's entire infrastructure when making changes and improvements.Collaborate with team members to define product requirements and implementation.Embody our culture and values. | |