Senior Hardware Engineer

Microsoft; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 119,800 - 234,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to work on cloud infrastructure, focusing on debugging hardware issues and collaborating with internal teams. The role requires significant experience in power systems and hardware solutions, ideal for candidates with a passion for optimizing technology solutions. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's in Engineering with engineering experience.
• 5+ years in server/storage/data center industry.
• Experience with AC-DC power supplies.

Responsibilities

• Debug complex hardware failures on Azure Cloud production fleet.
• Drive root cause analysis in cross-functional teams.
• Support infrastructure changes with Data Center Engineering.

Skills

Debugging complex hardware failures

Power subject matter expertise

Creating specifications

Troubleshooting power delivery issues

Strong writing skills

Education

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power meters

Job description

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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 trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy 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, at 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, delivering and maintaining cutting edge cloud server hardware across all of Azures business groups. CHSE works closely with internal and external partners to deliver best-in class cost and quality to our customers.

We are looking for seasoned 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 to maintain the highest hardware availability for our customers.

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

#azurehwjobs #CHSE #SCHIE

Responsibilities

• 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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.
  
  

Preferred

• Ability to instrument and test power supplies and converters in the lab including use of oscilloscopes, power meters, electronic loads, DMM’s and electronic sources.
• Knowledge of data center power infrastructure and delivery.
• Familiarity with PCB layout for low loss and low noise power conversion and analyze and view PCB layout from a power perspective.
• Ability to rework Power supply and server PCB’s including good soldering skills.
  
  

Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 15th, 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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