Senior System Electrical Engineer

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?  

Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.  

Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. 

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market. The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions. Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysis are necessary to making informed, data-driven decisions. Our hardware technology pathfinding work helps keep our product portfolio competitive by maturing new concepts for productization. Together, these functions create a strategic hardware and technology roadmap. 

To fulfill our mission, SPARC technology planning and pathfinding team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer for the development of complex servers and infrastructure with a concentration on advanced high-performance systems utilizing advanced power delivery solution technologies.  The candidate will collaborate closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to develop systems concepts that will meet the requirements for Microsoft cloud services platforms at the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).  The candidate will be responsible for evaluating technology and conceptualizing potential prototypes.  The Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer will collaborate internally and externally to supply on-paper analysis and prototyping of the most promising concepts to be matured into production. 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: 

• 7+ years of technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in designing and deploying platforms in hyperscale or cloud datacenters.
• Solid understanding of cloud hardware components, architectures, and power technologies. 
• Experience with technologies such as: power optimization, board design, thermal, mechanical, BIOS, BMC, signal integrity, networking as well as working with overseas CM/OEM/ODM vendors in product development.
• Experience with data center power distribution to server racks and within server racks as well as gathering requirements and developing server specifications and a demonstrated ability to engage technology developers in the industry to track and apply emerging technologies to innovative server designs.

 PERFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Experience with platforms deployed in hyperscale or cloud datacenters 
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including the ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, coordinating complex projects, and driving innovation in a collaborative environment.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Experienced working across disciplines and organizations to resolve complex issues 

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RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams consisting of both in-house and external companies in development of concept prototypes. 
• Understand computer architecture for system constraints that drive design tradeoffs.  Conceptual generation, simulation, design, and physical testing of prototype systems. 
• Conduct tradeoff studies and implement PoCs for electrical, mechanical, thermal, and hardware systems. 
• Follow through to drive concepts onto the roadmap and into Azure’s fleet. 
• Collaborate across Microsoft organizations to understand business needs and evaluate how new technologies may be utilized to improve Azure hardware, solve problems, and reduce TCO. 
• Analyze system concepts from a total cost of ownership (TCO), performance per TCO, and performance per watt perspective.
• Build relationships with stakeholders in system architecture, power and infrastructure teams. 
• Partner with peer organizations to define and specify high-performance hyperscale systems requirements. 
• Influence key external partners such as OEMs and vendors to evaluate datacenter technologies and topologies for datacenter rack deployments.