Hardware Engineer

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 committed to deliver customer-focused solutions to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure delivering scalable, high-quality hardware solutions efficiently. 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 engineers with relevant 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 Hardware Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Execute Signal Integrity and Power Integrity Measurements on Azure Compute Hardware, including measurements with Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and Oscilloscopes.
• Assemble and prepare computer/server hardware for measurement and testing by adding instrumentation, making modifications including but not limited to soldering to install or remove components from printed circuit boards.
• Analyze measurement data, prepare validation reports, and share findings with the engineering team for review.
• Maintain lab equipment and lab infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience making electrical measurements on circuit boards, such as oscilloscope measurements, time domain reflectometry measurements (TDR), or vector network analyzer (VNA) measurements.
• Experience assembling computer systems or other complex electrical systems.
• Experience soldering and unsoldering components on circuit boards.

• 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.

• Direct experience making vector network analyzer (VNA) measurements for the verification of high-speed interconnect performance.
• Familiarity with high-speed interconnects found in data center platforms, such as PCI Express, DDR, etc.
• Experience with assembling data center platforms – i.e. installing boards into chassis, attaching cables, heatsinks, fans, etc.
• Previous work experience as an Engineering Technician or Validation Engineer.

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