Senior Mechanical Engineer

The Xbox Hardware team is a diverse and creative group that designs, tests and makes some of the world's most popular entertainment devices. We ship millions of hardware products every year. Microsoft is looking for professional in entertainment device design. Join us to work on the next generation of Xbox! We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer who can lead complex designs through tough product development cycles. You can work with different disciplines to integrate mechanical assemblies, optics, electronics and software into great experiences. You are motivated and skilled at leading cross-disciplinary teams. You have at least eight years of experience in mechanical product design, with four years in consumer electronics with medium to high volume. This includes designing mechanical parts and assemblies for production. You can deliver solutions to customer needs with your design and show innovation and expertise in choosing materials and components to meet cost targets. You can set specifications and write test plans and develop test procedures to validate your designs. You can manage projects and design quality against deadlines and communicate well with teams across different engineering functions and locations. You are willing to travel internationally at times to support design and manufacturing activities and you can work well with international contract manufacturers and external design resources. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Provides make-versus-buy recommendations to management with tradeoffs based on complexity, financial impact, quality, reliability, and time duration. Influences decision making with stakeholders working on similar products. 

• Displays deep knowledge in multiple technical areas and acquires advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and advances in various engineering fields. Shares knowledge with others on their team and helps other engineers understand and apply advanced concepts. 

• Creates robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and verification plans that account for current industry threats for the hardware engineering aspects of a variety of established, complex products or feature areas. 

• Participates in creating intellectual property and conducts technical due diligence. May file patents within own area of scope and completes necessary patent documentation. 
• Develops and implements solutions to complex technical and/or design challenges that may involve multiple technical and business-related variables, and applies lessons learned to help develop future focused solutions to complex design challenges. 

• Identifies partner or supplier using established criteria through prescreening process. Sets agendas for workshops and makes presentations to collaborate with external partner or supplier. 

• Reads device specification sheets and interprets complex details required to design and test various hardware features. Writes internal device specification sheets. 

• Independently develops drawings that contribute to the development of complex, new products or features using modeling tools. Provides guidance to other engineers on the use of fundamental features of modeling tools. 

• Applies expertise in predictive modeling techniques (e.g., tolerance analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Design for Six Sigma) to inform design choices for a moderately feature or product.