Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Senior Principal Product Development - Hardware
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
9+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on delivering cloud infrastructure and services. They are seeking a Senior Principal Product Development leader to drive operational excellence and innovation in hardware development, collaborating across teams to ensure high-quality, scalable hardware solutions for their cloud services.
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Responsibilities
Lead the definition and evolution of scalable, repeatable processes across hardware development and sustainment
Provide strategic technical direction that strengthens engineering rigor, accelerates execution, and ensures operational excellence at cloud scale
Serve as the catalyst who translates strategy into actionable, governed execution—turning vision into reality for the organization
Partner closely with development teams across Microsoft, ODM partners, and platform engineering groups to ensure system requirements are clearly defined, aligned, and executed with precision throughout the product lifecycle
Act as a trusted collaborator who enables alignment across diverse technical and organizational boundaries
Drive continuous improvements in hardware development workflows using data, telemetry, and modern engineering methodologies
Champion new approaches that enhance reliability, velocity, and quality of complex hardware platforms, ensuring innovations move from concept to adopted practice across teams
Influence and communicate effectively with senior Microsoft and supplier leaders to ensure alignment on scalable architectures, engineering best practices, and long‑term platform strategy
Act as a key sounding board to the CVP—helping refine, pressure‑test, and operationalize major scaling initiatives
Establish and uphold the highest standards for quality, sustainability, and resilience across hardware development
Leverage analytics, insights, and engineering data to optimize processes, reduce variability, and enable predictable, high‑confidence execution
Operate as a strong executor who can convert ideas into durable, org‑wide outcomes
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 11+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
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
BS / MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience
15+ years of relevant experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle
10+ years of experience in end-to-end cloud hardware system development and manufacturing across all stages of development and at large scale deployment
Experience leading engineering teams
Proven experience with large scale, end-to-end cloud system hardware manufacturing
Experience leading systems validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies for product development
HW architecture and design principles around Server design lifecycle & tools
Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs), compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment
Experience with verification of highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet
Understanding of datacenters and large-scale operations
Experience managing hardware programs through the entire product lifecycle
Demonstrates executive-level communication and presentation skills in both verbal and written forms
Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system
Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage complexity while driving clarity
Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder processes, orchestrating across teams
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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