New 
Principal Hardware Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 19, 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 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 seasoned 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 Principal Hardware Engineer to join the team.
ResponsibilitiesLead end-to-end product delivery from concept through launch, ensuring technical excellence and timely execution. Drive cross-functional technical decision-making across architecture, silicon, firmware, hardware, OS, validation, and manufacturing teams. Define and manage program baselines in partnership with TPMs, including scope, schedule, budget, and change control. Own quality of design deliverables and ensure alignment with system-level requirements and performance goals. Influence platform, rack, and datacenter-level solutions for next-generation AI infrastructure. Evaluate and de-risk NUDD (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) technologies and features through structured analysis and mitigation planning. Collaborate with internal and external partners-including open-source communities-to integrate innovative technologies seamlessly. Articulate architectural and design tradeoffs across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and cost dimensions to optimize for TCO, performance, and scalability. Work closely with validation engineering team, systems engineering team and manufacturing engineering team to drive issues found during test to closure | |