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Senior Electrical Engineer

Posted Sep 29, 2026

Role at a glance

Job function
Engineering & R&D Electrical, Electronics & Controls Engineering
Salary
$160.2K – $261K/yr
Location
Redmond, Washington, United States Mountain View, California, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR...
Education
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR...

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Role Summary

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The Senior Electrical Engineer leads system-level electrical design for cloud hardware, from customer requirements and architectural design through detailed design and implementation. The role works with internal engineering disciplines and external ODM/OEM partners to deliver functionality, performance, quality, and reliability.

What You'll Do

  • Understand customer requirements and high-level architectural design, lead system-level electrical design execution, and create detailed...
  • Collaborate with internal design teams and external ODM/OEM partners on design implementation and product functionality, performance,...
  • Conduct design reviews of schematics, board files, BOM, DFT, DFM, and related materials.
  • Define board-level bring-up and electrical test requirements, ensure coverage, and execute or ensure execution.
  • Work with partner teams to create system-level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure coverage, and ensure execution.
  • Troubleshoot and triage issues, lead hardware debugging with partner teams, and drive resolutions and bug reports.

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Qualifications

Required: a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor's degree in those fields with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • 5+ years of relevant hands-on experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation...
  • Experience with high volume hardware production in server area
  • Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale
  • Experience with highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet
  • In-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software)
  • Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills
  • Experience with high-speed and high-power products design
  • 5+ years’ experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans

Original job description

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Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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, 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. 

As 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 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.  

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the team. 

 

#SCHIE #azurehwjobs 



Responsibilities

 

  • Understand customer requirements and high-level architectural design, lead electrical design execution at system level, responsible for detailed design specifications. 

  • Collaborate with internal design team (thermal, mechanical, firmware, OS) and external partner (ODM/OEM) for design implementation, ensure product functionality, performance, quality and reliability. 

  • Responsible for complete and deep design review, including schematics, board files, BOM, DFT, DFM, etc. 

  • Define board level bring-up and electrical test requirements, ensure complete coverage, execute or guarantee execution. 

  • Work with partner teams to create system level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure complete coverage, guarantee execution. 

  • Troubleshooting, issue triage, leading hardware related debug efforts with partner teams, drive resolution and bug reports. 



Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

  • Ability 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. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of relevant hands-on experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle

  • Experience with high volume hardware production in server area 

  • Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale 

  • Experience with highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet. 

  • In-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software)

  • Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills

  • Experience with high-speed and high-power products design

  • 5+ years’ experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans

  • Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans 

  • 5+ years’ experience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers 

  • Ability to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact 

  • Excellent team player


Electrical Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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Microsoft is a global technology leader that empowers individuals and organizations to achieve more through innovative software, services, and devices. Founded in 1975, the company is best known for its flagship products like the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office suite. In addition to personal computing, Microsoft is a leader in cloud computing with its Azure platform, providing a range of solutions for businesses to enhance productivity and efficiency. With a strong commitment to sustainability and accessibility, Microsoft continues to drive technological advancements that shape the future of work and learning.