Microsoft Senior System Electrical Engineer 

Taiwan, New Taipei, New Taipei 

999764108

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market. The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions. Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysis are necessary to making informed, data-driven decisions. Our hardware technology pathfinding work helps keep our product portfolio competitive by maturing new concepts for productization. Together, these functions create a strategic hardware and technology roadmap.

BASIC 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.
• Experience in designing and deploying platforms in hyperscale or cloud datacenters.
• Solid understanding of cloud hardware components, architectures, and power technologies.
• Experience with technologies such as: power optimization, board design, thermal, mechanical, BIOS, BMC, signal integrity, networking as well as working with overseas CM/OEM/ODM vendors in product development.
• Experience with data center power distribution to server racks and within server racks as well as gathering requirements and developing server specifications and a demonstrated ability to engage technology developers in the industry to track and apply emerging technologies to innovative server designs.

PERFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with platforms deployed in hyperscale or cloud datacenters
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including the ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, coordinating complex projects, and driving innovation in a collaborative environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experienced working across disciplines and organizations to resolve complex issues

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams consisting of both in-house and external companies in development of concept prototypes.
• Understand computer architecture for system constraints that drive design tradeoffs. Conceptual generation, simulation, design, and physical testing of prototype systems.
• Conduct tradeoff studies and implement PoCs for electrical, mechanical, thermal, and hardware systems.
• Follow through to drive concepts onto the roadmap and into Azure’s fleet.
• Collaborate across Microsoft organizations to understand business needs and evaluate how new technologies may be utilized to improve Azure hardware, solve problems, and reduce TCO.
• Analyze system concepts from a total cost of ownership (TCO), performance per TCO, and performance per watt perspective.
• Build relationships with stakeholders in system architecture, power and infrastructure teams.
• Partner with peer organizations to define and specify high-performance hyperscale systems requirements.
• Influence key external partners such as OEMs and vendors to evaluate datacenter technologies and topologies for datacenter rack deployments.