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Principal Hardware Quality Engineer

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

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, high-energy 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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. We are looking for a Principal Hardware Quality Engineer to join our team!

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead the team or task forces to drive the server quality across design, manufacturing, data center deployment and sustaining phase
  • Collaborate with leaders to drive Hardware Quality across platforms
  • Monitor and analyze data quality metrics to identify areas for improvement
  • Identify and address process inefficiencies to enhance overall quality
  • Establish Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to enhance product quality
  • Ensure quality requirements are met in the hardware change management process
  • Promote our Culture and Values, mentor, and develop team members, fostering excellence and innovation

Requirements:

  • Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer HW, Or System Engineering
  • Leadership skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams and drive a call to action
  • 15+ years of experience in working with the modern server architectures and/or their subsystems – including GPU, CPU, AI hardware, Memory and methods for root cause analysis and debugging
  • 7+ years of experience in working with modern server architectures and/or their subsystems– including GPU, CPU, AI hardware, Memory, Motherboards and methods for root cause analysis and debugging
  • 7+ years of experience in leading a taskforce to resolve technical problems and solutions

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 29, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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