Microsoft Principal Hardware Quality Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

377435897

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience.
• OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience.
• OR Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience.
• 4+ years of experience in working with modern server architectures – including GPU, Artificial Intelligence hardware, Memory or Central Processsing Units (CPU) and methods for failure analysis, debugging or validation.
• 4+ years of direct engineering experience in hardware system issue resolution in Data Centers

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:

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Or System Engineering.
• 12+ years of experience in working with the modern server architectures – includes understanding of GPU, Artificial Intelligence hardware, Memory or CPU and methods for failure analysis, debugging or validation.
• 12+ years of leading resolution of critical quality issues across data centers
• 3+ years of experience in leading a large-scale taskforce to resolve technical problems and solutions.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Hands on debugging in data center (onsite and virtual).
• Develop and implement a robust supplier quality management strategy to ensure the data center hardware is manufactured at the highest level of quality standards.
• Leadership to work across data centers, development, and supplier to resolve critical & high severity issues.
• Conduct hands-on debugging in global data centers (onsite and virtual), including Graphics Processing Units (GPU), and sub-system failure analysis.
• Drive the continuous improvement process based on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and identified opportunities.
• Manage multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) builds and quality phase-gate deliverables for the manufacturing team throughout the engineering development lifecycle, from concept through production readiness.
• Establish Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to measure and improve product quality.
• Act as the voice of quality in the hardware change management process, ensuring quality requirements are considered and met.