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Principal Hardware Engineer - Platform

United States, Redmond 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 14, 2026
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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 Hardware Engineer - Platform to join the team.

Job Responsibility

  • Own end-to-end technical delivery of AI and GPU-based platforms from architecture through production deployment
  • Act as the system-level technical owner, driving decisions across architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, OS, validation, and manufacturing
  • Define and manage technical baselines with TPMs
  • Own system design quality and completeness
  • Influence platform-, rack-, and datacenter-level architecture
  • Evaluate and de-risk NUDD technologies
  • Drive system-level tradeoffs across power, thermal, mechanical, cost, reliability, and manufacturability
  • Partner with validation and manufacturing teams to resolve issues
  • Collaborate with internal teams and external partners

Requirements

  • 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
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in system level design and/or implementation
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in server hardware architecture, design, and development
  • Proven experience delivering AI and GPU-based systems to production
  • Proven track record leading cross-functional technical execution
  • Deep system expertise in power delivery, thermal and liquid cooling, signal integrity, mechanical design, and reliability
  • Experience bringing high-volume silicon platforms from architecture through production ramp
  • Hands-on experience with PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, BIOS/BMC, and Linux and Windows integration
  • Experience with datacenter-scale AI systems
  • Ability to evaluate AI systems using performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar metrics
  • Clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence technical direction
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