Microsoft · 9 hours ago
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
United States, California, Santa Clara
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is responsible for powering Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud mission. The Senior Hardware Design Engineer will design and develop hardware platforms for Azure Datacenters, focusing on high-speed board design and ensuring compliance with specifications and quality standards.
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Responsibilities
Design & develop high-speed boards based on the architecture specification document and deliver detailed HW functional specification document
Work with cross-functional teams to review the hardware functional specification document and ensure the design meets all the requirements
Work with manufacturing team to review the design and ensure the DFM requirements are met
Work with Diagnostics & HW Test engineers to review the test plans and ensure there is no test coverage gap
Thorough testing and validation of hardware products to ensure compliance with specifications, requirements and quality standards
Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting of hardware defects in a timely manner and implement preventive measures for future occurrences
Qualification
Required
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
4+ years of Experience in any of the Schematics Design & PCB CAD tools like Cadence Orcad, Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics PADS & Cadence Allegro
4+ years of Experience on high-speed interfaces like PCIe/CXL, DDR, USB, UFS, SERDES
4+ years of Experience on Signal & Power Integrity concepts
4+ years of Experience working in lab environment and using different equipment like DSO, Power supplies, BERT & Traffic generators
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
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Experience working with CM/ODM, Fault isolation, & RCCAs
Experience working with Thermal Chamber & Protocol analyzers like PCIe, DDR, USB, UFS, SPI & I3C/I2C
Familiarity with Scripting languages like Phython/ Perl
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