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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, high-energy 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 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, 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 Quality Engineer to join the team.\n#azurehwjobs #HIFE\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and implement a robust supplier quality management strategy to ensure the data center hardware is manufactured at the highest level of quality standards.\n\nLead quality issues and improvement task force to contain, mitigate, and resolve the top-quality issues impacting global data centers.\n\nConduct debug and failure analysis for GPU subsystems in the Azure fleet and drive resolution with partners and suppliers.\n\nDrive the continuous improvement process based on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and identified opportunities.\n\nResponsible for quality readouts based on your telemetry data analysis, to bring clarity on status, actions across the organization and next steps for issue resolution.\n\nEstablish Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to measure and improve product quality.\n\nAct as the voice of quality in the hardware change management process, ensuring quality requirements are considered and met and improved.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nMaster's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.\n\n5+ years of work experience in managing product quality in the electronic industry.\n\n5+ years of direct engineering experience in hardware system issue resolution for GPU Servers.\n\nVersed in filtering through applicable debug data, like telemetry and logs to identify and investigate HW failure signatures.\n\nOther Qualifications:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nPatent or track record of engineering excellency.\n\nExperience with Liquid Cooling Systems in Data Centers\n\n12+ years of experience in working with the modern server architectures - includes understanding of GPU, CPU methods for failure analysis, debugging or validation.\n\nUtilize AI tools and solutions to drive AI adoption in quality engineering, accelerating insights, decision-making, and continuous improvement of fleet quality.\n\n8+ years of system level server debugging with an understanding of power, system and network environments\n\n3+ years of direct GPU related engineering experience in issue debug/test log review.\n\nLeadership skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams and drive a call to action.\n\nExperience in root cause analysis and corrective action methods to identify contributing factors of production defects.\n\nAbility to analyze large data sets, extract key insights, and effectively present and communicate the results.\n\nProficient communication and project management skills.\n\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. 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