Senior Hardware Engineer

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!
CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver 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 for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide.

This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and influence the way one of the world’s largest and fastest growing Cloud environments is built and supported.  As a critical part of the PDM Engineering team within Microsoft’s CSCP Organization, this Senior Hardware Engineer role will work with internal stakeholders to create building blocks, Bill of Materials (BOM’s), and Row level hardware design documentation and product data model. You will ensure that the design documentation conforms to Data Center Infrastructure standards. This role requires advanced industry knowledge in this specific engineering domain and shares knowledge with the team. Reads hardware specification sheets to create robust design structures, and dashboards. Identifies potential risks. Uses engineering analyses to identify flaws, brainstorms possible solutions, and brings them to the attention of team leads. Implements or recommends technical solutions to issues and provides guidance to other team members. Implements and tracks product plans with minimal guidance. Provides recommendations to help develop product plans and communicate status with team throughout the program. Provides recommendations to project team members based on research and data analysis. Develops and delivers training. Documents complex details about materials and functionality for a hardware, and tracks changes to designs.

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Responsibilities

• Work with many enterprise-class servers and networking technologies to create designs used to deploy hardware into Data Center  
• Contributes to program schedule to deliver the engineering aspects.
• Escalates issues as necessary.
• Generate technical specs for BOM’s, design and all other product data characteristics in the document using data provided by various teams in Microsoft and interprets complex details required. 
• Identifies opportunities that affect downstream execution by resolving issues.
• Specify, collate, create, update, and maintain the design and supply chain characteristics for Microsoft products using PDM system.    
• Build a server Bill of materials using discrete manufacturer and Microsoft part numbers and attach associated documents.    
• Communicates project progress/status within the project team and escalates issues as necessary.
• Upload the parts into a central library hosted by Microsoft PLM/PDM (product lifecycle management/product design management) system, or another method followed in the Microsoft system.    
• Review correctness of the parts against specifications given in datasheets and manufacturers recommendations   
• Validate the configuration and work with the PDM engineering team to resolve any issues through the workflow tool (Azure Dev Ops)   
• Interface with several internal stakeholder teams, gather requirements and provide feedback on design feasibility and constraints as needed.    
• Develops and delivers training along with training materials, documents, and templates.
• Manage multiple projects and work across a global multi-cultural team to drive influence, schedules, and timelines to meet project goals.
• Uses data/statistical analyses to identify complex problems or flaws and identifies possible solutions and brings them to the attention of team leads.

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