Senior Hardware 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 accomplish that mission. 

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team.

Our team collaborates across different organizations in Azure to build in-house custom hardware. We immensely value culture, mentorship, and acting as a unified team.

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, team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. 

This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing hardware design experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years of Multiphase buck & PDN design experience for high current low voltage DCDC conversion 

• 5+ years experience developing VR validation plans 

• 5+ years power modeling experience 

• 5+ years of collaboration with silicon & packaging power team to define power specs 

Other Requirements:

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: 

• 5+ years’ experience with Cadence EDA tools 

• 5+ years’ experience developing HW component and system level specifications 

• Experience with high volume hardware production. 

• Experience with cost/time/risk tradeoff analysis relative to time to market. 

• Experience with bleeding edge hardware design. 

• Experience working with ODM 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Jan 17, 2025.

Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:        

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• Lead VR design of awesome AI hardware. 
• Work with internal and external partners to define and specify HW power requirements. 
• Perform & review Schematic Entry in Cadence tools. 
• Be able to review and guide PCB Layout for high-speed, and high and low power designs. 
• Support BOM Creation & Manufacturing requirements. 
• Create bring-up, test and validation plans to ensure robust hardware. 
• Execute bring-up tests and debug hardware reports. 
• Collaborate with partners to ensure systems meet significant quality, reliability, and service level requirements for a cloud environment. 
• Collaborate with partner ODM/OEM companies. 
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