Principal System Technical Lead
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Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
New Taipei City, Taiwan
In Person
Hardware EngineeringHardware Systems Integration
About the job
Requirements
- A Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field and 7 or more years of technical engineering experience; or a Bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 8 or more years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in system-level design or implementation across compute, storage, networking, accelerator, or other complex hardware platforms, including hands-on server or compute development and integration across hardware, firmware, and operating systems.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical decisions, system validation strategies, and resolution of complex system-level issues across the hardware development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Provide end-to-end system technical leadership for Azure compute platforms during hardware development and validation, translating approved requirements and architecture into an executable cross-functional technical strategy.
- Drive timely program-level technical decisions across hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, datacenter integration, and operations, balancing performance, reliability, availability, serviceability, security, power, cooling, cost, schedule, and implementation risk.
- Establish the quality bar for system specifications, subsystem interfaces, design documentation, design reviews, validation strategies, test plans, and launch criteria, and maintain traceability from requirements through validation and deployment evidence.
- Identify integration gaps and assess new, unique, difficult, or differentiated technologies and features across processors and systems on a chip, memory, accelerators, PCIe and CXL fabrics, networking, storage, system management, power, cooling, and mechanical subsystems, including needs associated with scale-up, large-memory multi-processor platforms supporting up to eight sockets and CXL-attached memory, AI, or HPC use cases where applicable.
- Lead or sponsor system design reviews with Microsoft engineering teams, silicon and component partners, and original design manufacturers, and confirm that qualification, interoperability, and manufacturing test coverage address system requirements and risks.
- Lead cross-functional resolution of complex issues found during design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, or fleet operation, driving root cause, corrective action, verified closure, and propagation of fixes and lessons learned.
- Partner with the Technical Program Manager and Product Owner to assess the technical impact of proposed changes, drive milestone readiness, provide technical approvals defined by program governance, and communicate concise status, risks, decisions, and help-needed items to leadership.
- Collaborate across architecture, silicon, electrical, mechanical, thermal, power, firmware, operating systems, validation, systems engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, datacenter engineering, operations, suppliers, original design manufacturers, and customer-facing teams, including Taiwan and broader Asia-based partners, to align subsystem decisions and deliver an integrated compute platform.
Desired Qualifications
- Broad technical understanding across electrical design, signal integrity, mechanical design, thermal engineering, power delivery, processors, memory, storage, networking, system management, security, and industry standards.
- Experience developing server or compute systems and familiarity with processors and systems on a chip, memory subsystems, PCIe and CXL, storage, networking, accelerators, and related system interfaces.
- Experience evaluating, integrating, or debugging high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, CXL, DDR, Ethernet, or comparable technologies at the system level.
- Knowledge of system firmware, including BIOS, baseboard management controllers, system management protocols, telemetry, update, recovery, and security considerations.
- Knowledge of Windows, Linux, or other operating-system interactions with server hardware.
- Experience integrating high-volume silicon, systems on a chip, graphics processing units, field-programmable gate arrays, accelerators, or other complex components into high-volume systems.
- Experience working with original design manufacturers, silicon suppliers, component suppliers, manufacturing partners, and geographically distributed engineering teams, particularly within Taiwan or the broader Asia hardware ecosystem.
- Experience taking complex hardware platforms through architecture, design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, and sustained operation.
- Experience debugging complex system-level issues and driving root cause, corrective action, validation, and cross-platform fix propagation.
- Understanding of datacenter deployment, serviceability, fleet operations, reliability, and infrastructure operation at scale.
- Exposure to scale-up or scale-out compute, high-density systems, HPC workloads, or large-memory, multi-processor platforms supporting up to eight sockets and CXL-attached memory, or similarly complex custom cloud platforms.
- Ability to influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries and communicate complex tradeoffs, risks, decisions, and help-needed items clearly in written, verbal, and executive settings.
About the company
Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington
Founded
1975
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Company Match
- Professional Development Budget
- Conference Attendance Budget
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options