Senior Debug Tools Engineer

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 engineers to help achieve that mission. The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantages to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more. 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 DFX (Design for Test & Debug) team is instrumental in defining and elivering 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 engineers 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.   We are looking for a Senior Debug SW Tools Engineer to join the team to support our mission as a key role with ensuring Silicon quality.   #SCHIE #CSME Responsibilities The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities: Design, develop, validate, and maintain silicon debug tools and automation frameworks used during pre-silicon and post-silicon bring-up of Microsoft server-class SoCs. Develop and enhance debug workflows leveraging OpenOCD, Lauterbach TRACE32, JTAG/DAP infrastructure, and related run-control technologies to improve debug efficiency and engineering productivity. Create software utilities, automation scripts, and diagnostic tools using C/C++, Python, and related technologies to support firmware bring-up, silicon validation, crash analysis, and system debugging. Partner closely with silicon architecture, DFT, firmware, validation, platform, and operating system teams to investigate complex hardware-software interactions, root-cause issues, and drive corrective actions. Enable advanced debug capabilities including Coresight-based debug, trace collection, register and memory access, scan dump analysis, UART-based bring-up, crash dump collection, and remote debugging solutions.

Required 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.

Experience debugging embedded systems, firmware, operating systems, or SoC platforms involving hardware-software integration. 3+ years of programming experience in C/C++ and Python for software development, automation, tooling, or embedded systems. 3+ years of hands-on experience using hardware/software debug tools such as OpenOCD, TRACE32, Arm Development Studio, GDB, or equivalent debugging environments.