Principal Quality 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. 

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

We are looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to join the team to

Responsibilities

• Lead the team or task forces to drive the server quality across design, manufacturing, data center deployment and sustaining phase  
• Collaborate with leaders to drive Harward Quality across platforms. 
• Provide technical guidance to stakeholders and solve complex issues. 
• Drive continuous improvement through Root Cause Analysis (RCA). 
• Capable of leading the technical deep dives into failure analysis methodologies, system or component test failure reproduction strategies, test code or fault isolation content or test suites 
• Establish Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to enhance product quality. 
• Ensure quality requirements are met in the hardware change management process. 
• Promote our Culture and Values, mentor, and develop team members, fostering excellence and innovation. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:   

• Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience.
• 7+ years of experience in working with modern server architectures and/or their subsystems– including GPU, CPU, AI hardware, and methods for root cause analysis and debugging.    
• 7 + years of experience in leading a large-scale team or taskforce to resolve technical problems and solutions. <