Principal Electrical Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Principal Electrical Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

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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 a 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 a Principal Electrical Engineer to join the team.

Job Responsibility:

Understand customer requirements and high-level architectural design, lead electrical design execution at system level, responsible for detailed design specifications
Drive internal design collaboration among all functional teams (thermal, mechanical, firmware, OS), guide external partners (ODM/OEM/Suppliers) for detailed design implementation, ensure product functionality, performance, quality and reliability
Responsible for complete and deep design review, including schematics, board files, BOM, DFT, DFM, etc
Work with team members to define board level bring-up and electrical test requirements, ensure complete coverage, execute or guarantee execution
Work with partner teams to create system level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure complete coverage, guarantee execution
Troubleshooting, issue triage, leading hardware related debug efforts with partner teams, drive resolution and bug reports

Requirements:

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Experience with high volume hardware production in compute, storage, networking, accelerator and/or management module
Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale
Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet
In-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software)
Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills
10+ years of relevant hands-on experience in system level (compute, storage, networking, accelerator card and or management module) design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle
Experience with high-speed and high-power products design
10+ years’ experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans
Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans
10+ years’ experience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers
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
Excellent team player

Nice to have:

Experience with high volume hardware production in compute, storage, networking, accelerator and/or management module
Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale
Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet
In-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software)
Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills
10+ years of relevant hands-on experience in system level (compute, storage, networking, accelerator card and or management module) design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle
Experience with high-speed and high-power products design
10+ years’ experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans
Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans
10+ years’ experience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers
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
Excellent team player

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 07, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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