Electrical Engineer
Microsoft
Electrical Engineer
Microsoft
Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services
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 for talented 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 an Electrical Engineer to join the team.
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Applies electrical engineering fundamentals to the development of server, compute, storage, networking, accelerator, and management-module hardware. Owns clearly defined board-level design tasks or subsystems with guidance from senior engineers. Documents designs through hardware specifications, block diagrams, and interface definitions.
Supports proof-of-concept development by creating initial schematics and PCB layouts using the Cadence Allegro design suite, either directly or in collaboration with 3rd party design firms. Reviews schematics, BOMs, component selections, and design documentation. Supports PCB layout reviews, including power, high-speed interfaces, connectivity, and design-rule compliance.
Collaborates with internal electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and system engineering teams, as well as external ODM/OEM partners, to implement designs that meet product functionality, performance, quality, reliability, cost, and schedule requirements.
Collaborates with ODM EE, SI, power teams to complete detailed designs, fabricate the boards, execute EE verification test plans and review test reports.
Works with partner teams to perform hardware bring-up, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis at the board level.
Demonstrates effective hardware debugging skills, including modifying boards to enable measurements and probing, writing and executing test scripts, collecting and analyzing data, and documenting results. Safely operate lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, protocol analyzers, and vector network analyzers, etc.
Follows established engineering processes for design reviews, documentation control, component qualification, laboratory safety, issue tracking, and product release.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Solid foundation in analog and digital circuit design, including schematic capture and PCB layout principles. Exposure to high-speed or high-power designs is preferred.
Hands-on experience with board-level design, implementation, bring-up, validation, and debugging. Experience with compute, GPU, storage, networking, and/or accelerator hardware is a plus.
Familiarity with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and Ethernet, and low-speed interfaces such as SPI, I2C/I3C, SMBus, and UART, etc.
Familiarity with Windows or Linux, BIOS/BMC firmware, hardware/software security, and datacenter operations at scale.
Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication skills with the ability to take ownership, deliver results with appropriate guidance, and adapt in a fast-paced learning environment.
Electrical Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 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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