# Senior Hardware Engineer

OverviewMicrosoft Silicon Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, 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 trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft’s Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure (SCHIE) business continues to grow, delivering new offerings on time, at scale, with high quality and optimized cost is critical. To achieve this, the SCHIE Product and Procurement Optimization (SPPO) team plays a key role in defining and implementing portfolio optimization processes and controls that enable effective management and delivery of silicon hardware development, including f

- **Id**: 3764739
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-hardware-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States, Hillsboro, 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**: 2026-11-03T18:50:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:13:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7157
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Console Games, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), 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**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **OneDrive** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:32:18Z

## 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**: 70
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.695
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, wave, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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