Critical Environment Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Provides make-versus-buy recommendations to management with tradeoffs based on complexity, financial impact, quality, reliability, and time duration
• Influences decision making with stakeholders working on similar products
• Displays deep knowledge in multiple technical areas and acquires advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and advances in various engineering fields
• Shares knowledge with others on their team and helps other engineers understand and apply advanced concepts
• Creates robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and verification plans that account for current industry/competitive threats for the hardware engineering aspects of a variety of established, complex products or feature areas
• Develops and implements solutions to complex technical and/or design challenges that may involve multiple technical and business-related variables, and applies lessons learned to help develop future focused solutions to complex design challenges
• Writes internal device specification sheets and interprets complex details required to design and test various hardware features
• Independently develops drawings that contribute to the development of complex, new products or features using modeling tools
• Provides guidance to other engineers on the use of fundamental features of modeling tools
• Reviews documentation to help ensure that the appropriate test requirements and improvements are included in relevant hardware designs and specifications
• Co-develops methods of measurement with appropriate partners for measuring features of new product technology based on newly created or modified verification plans
• Identifies new tools, test methodologies, and best practices for creating test cases
• Develops, reviews, and executes test plans for complex feature areas or products
• Creates external testing supplier or partner engagement plans, evaluates supplier or partner readiness, and captures supplier or partner knowledge for use across a product group
• Records test data and conducts complex data/statistical analysis to identify bugs, defects, or failures rates, advises other engineers on the use of predictive modeling software, and compiles reports
• Uses root cause analysis to identify highly complex problems or flaws that may affect a feature or product design change and identifies possible solutions
• Provides guidance to other engineers developing product features
• Generates project implementation schedules, monitors performance against schedules, and helps determine resource dependencies for the hardware engineering aspects of complex features or products
• Guides other team members
• Implements and tracks product plans that account for the user experience, enable customer/partner testing scenarios, identify critical requirements (e.g., function, quality, safety, reparability, and/or reliability) and are verifiable
• Evaluates and approves a variety of details of the reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production of large designs
• Identifies the most significant project risks at the outset of a project and develops plans to address those risks
• Communicates project progress/status within and external to the project team (e.g., to customers and partners) and escalates issues as necessary
• Suggests project areas that can support Material Change Review Board (MCRB) efforts to improve and react to production issues, as required within a project team
• Writes customized reports and functional specifications for an established product or product feature, based on audits and information from product development and verification processes
• Reviews and provides feedback on other engineer's documentation
• Documents complex details about materials, components, and/or functionality for complex devices via accepted drawing release processes and highlights potential compatibility, safety, and compliance issues
• Accurately records and tracks changes to designs following established configuration management and provides guidance to other engineers documenting these details
• Embody our Microsoft One culture and values

• 7+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience
• Ability to work 12 hours shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends, and/or holidays
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

11+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience