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Senior Principal Product Development - Hardware

United States, Redmond 163000.00 - 296400.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 03, 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 engineers to help achieve that mission. This executive leader will be responsible for driving operational excellence, innovation, and scalable processes across our hardware development and sustainment ecosystem. As a senior technical leader, this role will partner closely with the CVP to define, mature, and institutionalize the processes that enable Microsoft to design, deliver, and sustain world‑class hardware platforms at cloud scale.

Job Responsibility

  • Technical Leadership & Strategy: Lead the definition and evolution of scalable, repeatable processes across hardware development and sustainment
  • Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with development teams across Microsoft, ODM partners, and platform engineering groups to ensure system requirements are clearly defined, aligned, and executed with precision
  • Process & Engineering Innovation: Drive continuous improvements in hardware development workflows using data, telemetry, and modern engineering methodologies
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment: Influence and communicate effectively with senior Microsoft and supplier leaders to ensure alignment on scalable architectures, engineering best practices, and long‑term platform strategy
  • Operational Excellence & Data‑Driven Execution: Establish and uphold the highest standards for quality, sustainability, and resilience across hardware development

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 11+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • 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

  • BS / MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle
  • 10+ years of experience in end-to-end cloud hardware system development and manufacturing across all stages of development and at large scale deployment
  • Experience leading engineering teams
  • Proven experience with large scale, end-to-end cloud system hardware manufacturing
  • Experience leading systems validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies for product development
  • HW architecture and design principles around Server design lifecycle & tools
  • Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs), compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment
  • Experience with verification of highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet
  • Understanding of datacenters and large-scale operations
  • Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle
  • Demonstrates executive-level communication and presentation skills in both verbal and written forms
  • Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage complexity while driving clarity
  • Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder processes, orchestrating across teams
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