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 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 CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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 fo 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 Senior HW Engineer, TPM with a business mindset and thrive in dynamic environment to drive lab process alignment across the organization. Come be a part of a growing team during an exciting evolution of the Azure Cloud at Microsoft!
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Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end lab support for a major SCHIE site and coordinate global lab alignment and resource sharing across locations.
- Own lab strategy and roadmap-to-capacity planning across space, power and cooling, networks, racks and benches, tooling, and support coverage to ensure program readiness.
- AI and compute rack readiness, including rack integration, power distribution, cabling and optics, network bring-up, and burn-in scheduling.
- Lead new-site standups, expansions, and platform transitions, including build and cutover plans, go/no-go criteria, migration waves, technical baselines, asset disposition, and early-life stabilization.
- Manage scope, schedules, risks, budgets, dependencies, competing priorities, and escalation paths across lab programs.
- Own long-lead procurement for critical compute, network, power, and specialty equipment, including alternatives, expediting, and supplier performance.
- Drive standardized lab operations and continuous improvement across builds, inventory, safety, security, access controls, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Establish repeatable operating models—including standard procedures, intake workflows, inventory taxonomy, rack templates, and runbooks—to enable consistent execution and geographic expansion.
- Partner with engineering, management, finance, facilities, security, vendors, and support teams to align requirements, decisions, and delivery plans.
- Maintain timely stakeholder communications, decision and risk records, readiness criteria, and operating documentation.
- Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
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
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:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar work-management tools.
- Ability to engage in dynamic work environment.
- Experience in analytics/metrics reporting.
- Working knowledge of network equipment, peripherals, and compute hardware.
- Effective interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with strong organization, documentation, and attention to detail.
- Experience with analytics and metrics reporting and proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications.
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 $160,200 - $261,000 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
This 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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