Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

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, 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, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 experienced 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 < Hardware Manufacturing Engineer > to join the team.

The Hardware Manufacturing Engineering Group is a team that collaborates with Microsoft’s suppliers, engineering design teams, business managers, and supply chain managers to ensure that the newest hardware that powers Microsoft’s cloud services is available to our customers on-time and at the highest levels of quality. A critical function in this work ensures the newest hardware developed by Microsoft is built at our supplier’s factories with efficiency, safety, and at the highest levels of quality. HMPM also ensures that our suppliers empower our customers by delivering this hardware and being agile and creative to work through the challenges of new product introduction. 

We are looking for a passionate, curious, and high-energy individual with a background on server design and manufacturing of products that cover Compute and GPU based AI workloads to join our team and take part in our vision to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more with Microsoft’s technology.

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Responsibilities

• Lead the hardware manufacturing of products/program/s through the different phases of the product lifecycle. 
• Strategically specifies and evaluates dimensions and process requirements to enhance production line quality and efficiency, develops capabilities for end-to-end manufacturing, drives lean manufacturing, investigates trends, and proactively mitigates production risks.
• Manage multiple Cloud hardware programs with a goal of ensuring Microsoft’s hardware is manufactured at the highest levels of Q&R, safety and sustainability standards.  
• Lead a cross functional team within the Manufacturing team in a fast pace and complex environment to ensure partner site readiness, identify and manage build risks, drive for mitigations and lead manufacturing gate reviews. Able to leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team. 
• Maintain manufacturing relationships and operations excellence with external partners and suppliers. 
• Oversees the standardization of manufacturing processes across supplier sites, drives continuous improvement, ensures supplier performance compliance, and implements dashboards for operational efficiency. 
• Defines modeling techniques and projection models to optimize production capacity and resources, leads failure analysis methodologies, and reviews specifications for compatibility. Leads efforts to resolve systemic issues, influence technology investments with suppliers, and develops risk mitigation plans.
• Be comfortable and efficient in interacting with management team, highlighting risks and providing recommendations to support product level decisions. Communicate issues and risks to Microsoft stakeholders in a clear and timely manner using written, verbal, and analytic formats.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering: Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, or any related engineering degree. 
• 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment /repair OR equivalent experience.
• Proven leadership, management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills including L1/L2 Triage Capability  
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills, and experience working effectively with all organizational levels. 
• Proven experience prioritizing and executing tasks in a high-pressure, fast-faced environment.  
• Well versed in Microsoft Office tools (Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel etc.) and Power BI. 
• Ability to speak or read in Chinese (Mandarin) 
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) 

Preferred Qualifications (Desired):

• Engineering experience in designing and/or manufacturing the parts and assemblies used in datacenter hardware. Additional experience and knowledge in the server industry product development process will be significantly advantageous. 
• 8+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and cross team projects
• Server compute, storage, GPU and networking product development or manufacturing experiences
• Ability to analyze and interpret data statistically and to translate statistical data into business narratives that enable executives to make timely and informed decisions. 
• Proven track record in identifying a complex environment and driving improvements on scale. 
• Demonstrated executive communications and leadership skills, ability to work well with cross functional groups, ability to work independently with remote supervision. 
• Valor, Creo and Cadence Allegro software knowledge

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.  

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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