Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsofts 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 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 Principal Electrical Engineer AI Hardware to join the team.

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• Understand customer requirements and high-level architectural design lead electrical design execution at system level responsible for detailed design specifications.

• Drive internal design collaboration among different teams (thermal mechanical firmware OS) guide external partner (ODM/OEM) for detailed design implementation ensure 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 ensure complete coverage execute or guarantee execution.

• Work with partner teams to create system level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans ensure complete coverage guarantee execution.

• Troubleshooting issue triage leading hardware related debug efforts with partner teams drive resolution and bug reports.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

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:

• Experience with high volume hardware production in server area

• 10 years of relevant hands-on experience in system (compute storage networking and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle

• Experience with high-speed and high-power products design

• 10 years experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans

• Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans

• 10 years experience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers

• 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

• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale

• Experience with highspeed 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

Electrical Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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