Job Description:
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for an Interconnect System Architect to join the System Design team. The Interconnect System Architect drives co-design efforts between silicon and system teams, integrating cutting-edge interconnect technologies. This role is pivotal for next-generation high-speed connectivity solutions across Microsoft hardware platforms. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated significant experience in high speed system design with advanced interconnectivity technologies. Our team is at the forefront of technology and system design, leading the way for the next generation of platforms. Our mission is to architect the most performant, secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions that are deployed at hyperscale to power Azure. The architect filling this role will be the subject matter expert to address the interconnectivity challenge in the silicon package, in the module, in the tray, in the rack and in the cluster. The architect will collaborate with the Planning and Sourcing teams and with Mechanical and Thermal Architects on requirements capture, technology insertion, concept proposals, cost/performance tradeoffs, prototype engineering, and architectural documentation for design/planning reviews. Once a program is approved from a conceptual level, the Architect will partner with the development teams to ensure a smooth transition to full product development. This individual will also champion innovative technical principles, design strategy and forward-looking technologies related to industry trends, drive the codesign with the full hardware stack from silicon to node, rack and cluster. Helping articulate and define our next generation interconnectivity technology. Come join this exciting and growing team through our monumental evolution of cloud hardware at Azure and Microsoft!
