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Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and is responsible for powering Microsoft's “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for over 200 Microsoft online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform worldwide. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners, and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

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 Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability for Microsoft's cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer‑focused solutions and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer requirements and high–level architectural design; lead electrical design execution at system level and produce detailed design specifications.
• Drive internal design collaboration among all functional teams (thermal, mechanical, firmware, OS) and guide external partners (ODM/OEM/Suppliers) for detailed design implementation, ensuring product functionality, performance, quality, and reliability.
• Responsible for complete and deep design review, including schematics, board files, BOM, DFT, DFM, etc.
• Work with team members to define board‑level bring‑up and electrical test requirements, ensuring complete coverage and guaranteeing execution.
• Work with partner teams to create system‑level bring‑up and end‑to‑end validation test plans, ensuring complete coverage and guaranteeing execution.
• Troubleshoot, triage issues, lead hardware‑related debug efforts with partner teams, and drive resolution and bug reports.

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant hands‑on experience in system‑level (compute, storage, networking, accelerator card, and/or management module) design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.
• 8+ years of experience developing board and system‑level bring‑up and test plans.
• 8+ years of experience debugging board and system‑level issues for Cloud Servers.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. This includes, but is not limited to, the Microsoft Cloud Background Check, which must be passed at hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high‑volume hardware production in compute, storage, networking, accelerator, and/or management modules.
• Knowledge of data center operations at scale.
• Experience with high‑speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and Ethernet.
• In‑depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software).
• Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with high‑speed and high‑power product design.
• Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact.
• Excellent team player.

Pay: Electrical Engineering IC5 – typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year. In the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metro area, the range is USD $188,000 – $304,200 per year.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 13, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.