Electrical Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Oregon, Hillsboro | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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 CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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 talented 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 an Electrical Engineer to join the team. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesDesign electrical circuits based on customer and architectural specifications. Document those designs in HW specifications and block diagrams. For early POC work develop initial schematics and layout using the Allegro design suite and/or 3rd party design firms. Collaborate with internal design team (thermal, mechanical, firmware, OS) and external partner (ODM/OEM) for design implementation, ensure product functionality, performance, quality and reliability.Collaborate with ODM EE, SI, and power teams to do detailed EE design work, fabricate the boards, and complete EE verification to ensure the design meets quality and performance requirements. This oversight includes participating in cross functional and ODM, MSFT working meetings, providing block diagrams, specifications and test plans, and reviewing SI, PI and lab test reports. Test and debug hardware. This includes having excellent hardware debug and lab skills, being able to modify a board to enable probing if needed, write and execute test scripts, and operate complex test and measurement equipment (oscopes, programmable power supplies, protocol analyzers, are some examples). Responsible for thorough and deep design reviews, 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 EE bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure complete coverage, guarantee execution.Must be a team player and demonstrate motivation to be a member of a high performing EE team | |