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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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.\nAs 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 Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for experienced engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.\nWe are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team.\n#SCHIE\nResponsibilities\nUnderstand customer requirements and high-level architectural design, evaluate interconnect solutions available in the market, responsible for developing detailed specifications.\n\nSpecify mechanical and electrical requirements for high-speed interconnects.\n\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams (EE, ME, SI/PI, system architecture) to ensure co-design alignment.\n\nBalance innovation with manufacturability, cost, and reliability to deliver robust, scalable solutions.\n\nLead or support design reviews, signal integrity (SI) and mechanical simulations, and prototyping.\n\nEvaluate and select suppliers for connectors and cables.\n\nDrive technical alignment and qualification with vendors, including DFM/DFT/DFR considerations.\n\nDefine test and inspection criteria for interconnect components.\n\nEnsure compliance with reliability standards and environmental requirements.\n\nSupport root cause analysis and continuous improvement for field and production issues.\n\nWork with partner teams to create system level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure complete coverage, guarantee execution.\n\nDevelop and maintain design guides, specifications, and recommended practices.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.\n\n5+ years’ experience in high-speed interconnection products development and/or projects execution.\n\n5+ years’ experience in system level high-speed design and implementation (connector, cable, backplane and/or mid-plane) across the hardware development lifecycle.\n\n5+ years’ experience working across multiple disciplines (electrical, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, system/rack integration, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact.\n\nFundamental knowledge of the following hardware design principles: Computer Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Power Design, Signal Integrity.\n\nExperience executing hardware validation and functional test plans.\n\nHands-on using VNA, high-speed scopes, bus protocol analyzer, logic analyzers, etc..\n\nExperience working across disciplines and organizations.\n\nDemonstrated verbal and written communication and presentation skills.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDeep understanding of connector mechanics, cable assembly, and SI/ME tradeoffs.\n\nKnowledge of blind-mate connector systems, floating connector designs, and cable backplane architectures.\n\nFamiliarity with AI infrastructure, hyperscale systems, or data center hardware.\n\nExperience with PCIe Gen7 and/or 112G/224G PAM4 signaling and associated SI/PI challenges.\n\nExposure to reliability testing (HALT/HASS), failure analysis, and quality control systems.\n\nExperience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers.\n\nProficiency in simulation tools (HFSS, CST, SIwave) and mechanical CAD (Creo, SolidWorks).\n\nAbility 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.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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