Microsoft Principal Hardware Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

440545977

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, development with solid understanding of hardware, firmware, and Operating System (OS).

Other Requirements:

• to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequired 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:

• Ability to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact.
• Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs), compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.
• Experience with highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet.
• Knowledge of operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software).
• Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale.
• Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle.
• Experienced in debugging complex system level issues and ability to root-cause/identifying potential fixes.

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 May 23rd, 2025.

• Own end-to-end product delivery from concept to launch of platforms
• Drive program level cross function technical decision
• Design deliverables quality management
• Work with TPM to define program baseline including scope, schedule, budget and cost
• Work with TPM for design change management
• Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design, hardware validation, OS (operating systems), manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions.
• Drive Perform NUDD (new, unique, different and difficult) technology and feature analysis and provide risk assessment and mitigations.
• Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to onboard innovative technologies in a seamless manner.
• Work closely with validation engineering team, systems engineering team and manufacturing engineering team to drive issues found during test to closure