Senior Mechanical 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, Skype, 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. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware (HW) infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance.  

To achieve this goal, we are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will contribute to the design and development of General Compute server components, their integration into building blocks and racks, and support the test and validation teams to ensure their successful deployment in Azure datacenters. The successful candidate has a track record of working in multi-disciplinary teams on product development from concept through production and is well grounded in the fundamentals of mechanical engineering and tackling technical challenges 

In this role, you will utilize your design and analysis skills to take ownership of mechanical projects from concept to production, working with a team of engineers to develop innovative solutions for Microsoft’s cloud hardware infrastructure. You are expected to use your engineering expertise to conceptualize and communicate design intent to hardware teams and perform what-if scenarios that is typical in early product development. Working in conjunction with our ODM and SI partners, you will design mechanical components, systems, and assemblies using CAD software and create prototypes for testing and validation and facilitate their introduction into our products. You will create mechanical specifications and interface control documents and drive best practices for mechanical design across our product portfolio while ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety standards. You will be conducting design reviews, generating engineering documentation and developing test plans and reports including formulating DOEs, analyzing data and driving timely decision making to meet project schedules. Your designs will focus on ensuring part commonality, serviceability and safety, without compromising performance.  You will be responsible for proactively selecting and evaluating materials to support Microsoft’s sustainability initiative and drive the re-use of materials across product families and product generations.  

As a senior mechanical engineer, you will perform structural statics and dynamics simulations to guide design improvements and maintain adequate design margin against likely failure mechanisms. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including external vendors and suppliers to source components, lead design strategy, ensure robust performance prediction, review manufacturing processes, and ensure adherence to quality standards. You will provide engineering support to NPI teams by troubleshooting component and systems issues to enable a seamless integration of designs from development into production. You are expected to stay abreast of the latest trends and advancements in mechanical engineering, in cloud infrastructure and data center technologies, and propose innovative ideas to enhance our hardware offerings. 

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