# Senior Hardware Engineer

OverviewAs Microsoft’s cloud continues to scale, our ability to deploy new hardware platforms and infrastructure quickly, reliably, and cost effectively is critical. The Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) organization drives hardware readiness, quality, reliability, and operational excellence across Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. Fleet Engineering is transforming how complex infrastructure problems are solved by combining systems expertise with telemetry, automation, AI, and agentic workflows. We are looking for a Sr. Hardware Engineer to solve challenging hardware, firmware, software, and system-level problems across Microsoft’s Global Azure Cloud enabled by remote, at-scale engineering capabilities. The role turns deep engineering insights into scalable diagnostics, automation, intelligent workflows, and reusable capabilities that improve Fleet readiness, reliability, diagnosability, and recoverability. #azurehwjobs #HIFE #SCHIE Responsibilities Architect and deliver AI-native, end-to-end system debug solutions for hyperscale datacenter infrastructure, combining engineering expertise, telemetry, automation, and agentic workflows. Design an

- **Id**: 3848755
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-hardware-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States, Washington, United States, Austin, United States, Raleigh, 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**: 2026-11-05T17:43:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T17:21:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7077
- **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**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## 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**: 70
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.695
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **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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