Silicon Debug Engineer

Silicon Debug Engineer Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Gelugor

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200061278

Date posted

Oct 12, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Hardware Engineering

Discipline

Silicon Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

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 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 Silicon Manufacturing and Product Engineering (SMPE) 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 custosmer 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 Silicon Debug engineer to join the team to support our mission as a key role with driving silicon failure analysis, fault isolation, and product debug across Cobalt and Maia programmes.

SCHIE CSME SMPE

Responsibilities

The candidate will be expected to complete the following responsibilities:

• The Silicon Debug Engineer will own complex investigations from failure intake and reproduction through electrical fault isolation, physical-analysis hand-off, evidence-based disposition and root-cause closure. The engineer will collaborate across silicon, package, product, test, platform, manufacturing and supplier teams to improve product quality and debug efficiency.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Lead FA/FI investigations covering first-silicon bring-up, manufacturing, reliability qualification, system integration and customer RMA failures.
• Reproduce and characterize failures on ATE and system-level test environments using production and debug test programme, shmoo analysis, margin data and failure-signature correlation.
• Isolate failures across memory, logic, interconnect, I/O, clock, reset, power and security subsystems using DFT diagnostics and electrical evidence.
• Perform electrical failure analysis and fault localization using optical and laser-based techniques such as EMMI, LVI and LADA, where available.
• Debug test hardware, load boards, sockets, test programme and test c