# Principal Hardware Engineer

OverviewMicrosoft 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 experienced engineers to 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, deliver

- **Id**: 3848760
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-hardware-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States, Hillsboro, United States, Raleigh, United States, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T16:31:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:27:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7064
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 456
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **OneDrive** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Management years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:44:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 62
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.624
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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