Sr. Hardware Engineer TPM
MicrosoftAbout the role
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 HW Engineer, TPM with a business mindset and thrive in dynamic environment to drive lab process alignment across the organization. Come be a part of a growing team during an exciting evolution of the Azure Cloud at Microsoft!
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
- Lead end-to-end lab operations and support for SCHIE engineering teams across a major site and global lab environments.
- Drive lab strategy, capacity planning, and execution to ensure readiness for current and future engineering programs.
- Own lab infrastructure planning and readiness, including space, power, cooling, network connectivity, racks, tooling, and operational support.
- Lead AI and compute lab deployments, including rack integration, cabling, power distribution, network bring-up, validation, and milestone readiness.
- Manage lab projects, schedules, budgets, risks, vendors, and procurement activities to ensure on-time delivery.
- Drive new lab site build-outs, expansions, migrations, and platform refresh initiatives with minimal impact to engineering productivity.
- Manage infrastructure constraints, dependencies, and prioritization across multiple programs, providing clear escalation paths and decision frameworks.
- Partner with engineering, operations, finance, facilities, and cross-functional stakeholders to align lab investments and execution plans.
- Coordinate lab standards, resource sharing, inventory management, and operational processes across SCHIE locations worldwide.
- Establish and improve scalable lab processes for safety, security, compliance, asset management, audits, and operational excellence.
- Ensure accurate documentation, runbooks, and communication to support efficient lab operations and knowledge sharing.
- Embody Microsoft’s Culture and Values and perform related duties as needed.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of program management experience managing cross-functional work with diverse teams.
- 5+ years of working knowledge of network equipment, peripherals, and Artificial Intelligence & Compute hardware. <
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