Senior Hardware Diagnostics Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States

Date posted

Oct 27, 2025

Job number

1901828

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Hardware Engineering

Discipline

Hardware Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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 passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives.

Central to our mission is development of platforms for Azure Datacenters based on our highly programmable data processing chip (DPU). As a Hardware Diagnostics Engineer, you will be responsible for the development of hardware diagnostics that shall be used to validate all the components of the DPU based systems.

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Diagnostics Engineer to join our team

Required/minimum qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in hardware functionality through Datasheets, Schematics & Functional Specifications
• 4+ years of experience in Linux kernel drivers for IO Peripherals and sensors.
• 4+ years of experience in writing and understanding infrastructure written in Python/ GTK
• 4+ years of experience working on BMC/IPMI frameworks and x86 BIOS/ UEFI

Other Qualifications

• 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

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working with CM/ODM on manufacturing diags, fault isolation, & RCCAs
• Experience working with traffic generators, PCIe, DDR, SPI & I3C/I2C protocol analyzers
• Windows Programming Experience (Visual Studio+)

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 November 14th, 2025.

• Develop test plans to validate new products working closely with Hardware (Silicon & Board Design), Software (Platform & OS) and Mfg. Test Engineers.
• Develop tests and debugging tools to validate the functionality of hardware systems.
• Perform product validation and verification of systems in field or lab environment.
• Prepare and submit test reports highlighting the diags. coverage for various components/ subsystems
• Train the technicians responsible for carrying out testing activities at CM/ ODM site.
• Provide support to the Hardware Test Engineers (DVT) in development of automated test cases.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Industry leading healthcare

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Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.