Microsoft Hardware Analyst Planner 

United States, Washington 

586288448

Strategic Planning and Architecture(SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.

team, an influential group within the Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure organization responsible for driving end-to-end hardware strategy. You willbe responsible forand workloadanalysis in cloud and datacenter, toenable achievingthe right hardware and product strategy for Microsoft Azure cloud business. Our teams invent, design, and sustain the most scalable, secure, and efficient platforms and systems to power Azure now and into the future, building the best hardware systems that can power this platform – a vertically integrated hardware and software stack from silicon to servers,and clusters, up through the datacenter infrastructure.

As a Hardware Analyst and Planner, you will own evaluation and communication of workload KPIs ensuringtoperformance and value across different product families and business segments.  You will partner with key suppliers, as well as engineering teams, finance, and execution teams on improving product performance understanding, reducing overall cost of goods,optimizingworking capital.  You willyour creativity to solve complex performance, powerand cost optimization problems in a scalable way and drive continuous improvement of technology and hardware planning processes by benchmarking against best practices.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years industry experiencein hardware technology development (CPU, GPU, Storage, Memory) or cloud product development.

• Experience in building complex analytical models in Microsoft Excel.

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 or Master's inengineering, operations management, mathematics, physics, applied sciences orsimilarSTEMfield, OR corresponding technicalexperience.
• 5+ years’ experience in hardware technology development (CPU, GPU, Storage, Memory) or cloud product development.
• Knowledge of server hardware performanceand TCOmodeling and analysis, e.g.: CPU, Memory, and other components.
• Knowledge of cloud hardware and software ecosystem, including workloads and their affinity to different hardware architectures.
• Knowledge ofsupplychain with prior experience in product planning, performance analysis or manufacturing operations.
• In depth knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications, including advanced knowledge of Excel along witha solidanalytical capabilities and experience with statistical tools (Regression analysis, advanced Excel / VBA, Power BI is a plus).
• Solid process/system background and proven ability to rapidly understand, use and drive improvements in new processes/systems and drive to a consensus for recommendation to leadership and executives.
• Good business judgment & communication/presentation skills.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.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 July 17, 2024.

• Business Intelligence and Analytics: Perform analyses & build ‘what-if’ scenario models to support decision making; work to improve data systems and develop new reporting tools to improve model visibility and accuracy.
• Workloads and Performance/PowerComparisons: Fundamental understanding of cloud and datacenter workloads.
• Ability tocomprehendand utilize industry tools to project and model performance on variety of CPUand GPUarchitectures.
• Manage andmonitorinventory key performance KPIs for general purpose compute, high performance compute, and internal Microsoft customers.
• Clear understanding of Spec CPU benchmarks and micro-benchmarks (SIR, SFR, Spec JBB, etc.), artificial intelligence and machine learning benchmarks for inference and training (BERT, BERT-3, GPT, Resnet, etc.)
• Identifyproblem areas and driveappropriate actionsto achieve performance targets for the KPIs.
• Define process and predictive analytics to align consensus on server and datacenter workload and performance models.
• Cost plan management: Leadcreationof new plans and scenarios foroptimizingcost ensuring goals are achieved.
• Publish and buildplantoengineering groups, planners, execution team and track cost indicators’ performance against plan, proactively managing all deviations and mitigating risks to meeting the commitment.
• Partner with supply chain, finance, business groups and engineering teams todetermineandexecute onan optimalcost plan.
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