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.

• Work with internal and external partner teams to debug complex hardware failures on Azure Cloud production fleet.
• Represent electrical and power engineering in cross functional debug teams driving for root cause analysis of live production hardware failures.
• Be a power subject matter expert to internal and external CHSE partners to resolve issues and obstacles as they arise in development and production from the rack to the processor.
• Work with Data Center Engineering and management to support/suggest infrastructure changes and improvements.
• Position requires working with and developing relationships with Microsoft internal quality, reliability, Agency, supply chain and Data center teams to ensure a smooth product delivery from concept to end of life.
• Position also requires support of PDUs, PSUs, UPSs, power conditioners, circuit breakers, bus bars, battery backup, ATS’s.
• Position requires ability to create specifications, and ability to test and support testing of all solutions in all stages of development.
• Develops and tracks KPIs for time from failure notification to fix implementation.
• Driving hardware failure lessons learned back into the development teams for product improvement.

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years combined experience working in the server/storage/data center industry.
• 5+ Years working in the power industry developing/testing/qualifying AC-DC power supplies and power solutions.
• 5+ Years working with DC-DC power converters.
• Experience in specifying, designing, and qualifying server power delivery solutions.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving power supply or power delivery issues.
• Experience using query tools like Kusto.
• Experience with scripting languages and analyzing large data sets.
• Experience with serial debuggers at the node and rack level.
• Understanding of power management and BMC functionality.
• Familiarity with EMI, Safety, and general agency requirements.
• Ability to create specifications and requirements.
• Excellent writing skills and use of Microsoft Office products.

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Savings and investments
• Opportunities to network and connect