Microsoft Senior Hardware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

585581638

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

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:

• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos). 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Hands on experience with a PLM/PDM system
• Experience creating technical documentation used to configure enterprise hardware devices.
• Understanding of Data center rack/row build out, air flow and other infrastructure constraints

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 15, 2024.

• Work with many enterprise-class servers and networking technologies to create designs used to deploy hardware into Data Center
• Contributes to program schedule to deliver the engineering aspects.
• Escalates issues as necessary.
• Generate technical specs for BOM’s, design and all other product data characteristics in the document using data provided by various teams in Microsoft and interprets complex details required.
• Identifies opportunities that affect downstream execution by resolving issues.
• Specify, collate, create, update, and maintain the design and supply chain characteristics for Microsoft products using PDM system.
• Build a server Bill of materials using discrete manufacturer and Microsoft part numbers and attach associated documents.
• Communicates project progress/status within the project team and escalates issues as necessary.
• Upload the parts into a central library hosted by Microsoft PLM/PDM (product lifecycle management/product design management) system, or another method followed in the Microsoft system.
• Review correctness of the parts against specifications given in datasheets and manufacturers recommendations
• Validate the configuration and work with the PDM engineering team to resolve any issues through the workflow tool (Azure Dev Ops)
• Interface with several internal stakeholder teams, gather requirements and provide feedback on design feasibility and constraints as needed.
• Develops and delivers training along with training materials, documents, and templates.
• Manage multiple projects and work across a global multi-cultural team to drive influence, schedules, and timelines to meet project goals.
• Uses data/statistical analyses to identify complex problems or flaws and identifies possible solutions and brings them to the attention of team leads.

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