# Principal Hardware Technical Program Manager

OverviewMicrosoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) organization designs and delivers the advanced hardware platforms that power Azure’s global cloud and AI services. As a Principal HW Technical Program Manager, you will own the end-to-end strategy and execution for next-generation accelerated AI Infrastructure systems. You will lead early product definition, align cross-disciplinary engineering teams, and ensure each platform meets the performance, reliability, and operational readiness required for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. Your technical program leadership brings compute, networking, firmware, power and cooling, and platform software together into cohesive solutions. In this role, you will guide programs from early engineering development through validation, New Product Introduction, and fleet-level readiness. You will drive cross-functional execution across internal engineering teams, technology partners, and global manufacturing and supply chain organizations to ensure platforms are built, tested, and ready for production scale. You will play a critical role partnering with internal business and deployment teams to inform program

- **Id**: 3987980
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-hardware-technical-program-manager>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T05:58:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:10:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6864
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- **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

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- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 438
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
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- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Management years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:10:22Z

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- 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

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- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:48:15Z

## Pay

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

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