Senior Power 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 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 CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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 looking for a Senior Power Engineer to join the System Design team. 

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• Define and design rack level power systems to enable integration of a variety of IT gears into Microsoft data centers 

• Work with cross-functional teams to drive product qualification full test coverage to meet product requirements and ensure product deployment 

• Lead rack level power system testing and identify integration issues between PSU, power shelf, firmware and system load. 

• Contribute to rack level power system solution roadmap with cross-functional teams and vendor partners to ensure long term scalability of Microsoft power infrastructure 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on power delivery for high-performance compute (HPC), AI workloads, and ODM platforms. 

• Define and enforce power system design standards, safety protocols, and compliance with global regulatory requirements. 

• Engage with external partners, suppliers, and academic collaborators to advance power system innovation. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:  

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or related field. MS and PHD are preferred.

• 3+ years of experience with high power redundant AC-DC power supply design  

• 3+ years of experience with product bring-up and troubleshooting skills with power supply testing methodologies 

• 3+ years of experience developing design specifications, design guidelines, and test plans 

• Familiar with digital bus design, such as I2C/PMBus, Modbus, and CANbus 

• Familiar with safety standards and application process 

• Familiar with power supply qualification standard and process, such as components derating, MTBF and EMC 

• Detail oriented communication skills 

• 3+ years of experience with AC-DC power conversion topologies, such as various active PFC approaches, PWM converters