Sr. Platform Systems Engineer at Microsoft

The 7+ years of relevant experience in system-level design and/or implementation is stated as a specialized screening requirement, making it the effective minimum experience gate for this role.

The degree requirement accepts a Master's + 3 years, a Bachelor's + 5 years, or equivalent experience — no single degree is a hard gate, so the degree requirement is set to None.

SOC classification is genuinely ambiguous: the role is primarily about hardware platform bring-up and debug (closer to systems/hardware engineering than software development or pure IT operations), but no SOC code in the available list cleanly covers silicon/hardware validation engineering. 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is the closest available code for hands-on systems bring-up and operations work; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as an alternative given the specialized nature of the work.

Skills in this posting are largely described as activities or domain areas rather than named tools or technologies, limiting the concrete skill list. 'Hardware platform bring-up', 'hardware validation', 'SOC', and 'datacenter operations' are the most concrete named technical domains explicitly called out.

Firmware, management firmware, and software stack interface experience are listed under a preferred/preferred section ('is preferred'), so they are marked as not required.

Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): hardware platform bring-up, datacenter operations.