Principal Manufacturing 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 passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. 

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 seasoned engineers 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 seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer who can demonstrate technical excellence by driving breakthrough, strategic technical innovation within manufacturing of new products for Azure. Demonstrates a willingness and ability to handle the most technically challenging and strategically impactful parts of the business and defines or adopts industry leading approaches and manages ambiguity through engineering and project management principles. This role will lead groups to scope problems by identifying key issues inputs, stakeholders and outcomes.  This role will work across high volume assembly factories, hardware design teams, rack server integrators, and Microsoft data centers.  Key opportunities for this role will be to develop and improve manufacturing efficiencies by studying product design, manufacturing methods, and applying LEAN manufacturing principles.   

Responsibilities

Responsibilities: provide principal level manufacturing leadership from new product introduction to end of life. 

• Provide insights into current industry/competitive trends within the manufacturing processes.  You will validate standards of a variety of established, complex products and identify areas to add value to existing products, manufacturing processes, qualification procedures, and metrology. Influences internal partners and external suppliers or partners to comply with measurement standards and requirements. 

• Write, review, develop internal and external component/sub-component/device/process specifications with key stakeholders. Coach others on how to document complex details about materials, components, and/or functionality for new and complex devices and account for potential compatibility issues. 

• Assess manufacturing partner capabilities and develop continuous improvement strategies to mitigate new product introduction risks in areas such as fabrication of products, components, sub-assemblies, and/or final assemblies and define require