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.
The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.
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 **Silicon and Manufacturing Packaging Engineering (SMPE) **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 Senior Product Engineer to join the team.
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Responsibilities
The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:
- Drive alignment across design, test, packaging, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
- Lead complex problems solving under ramp pressure (excursions, bottlenecks, supply constraints)
- Influence program decisions with data-driven insights and clear trade-offs
- Own yield ramp from NPI to HVM: yield monitoring, DOE, excursion management, and continuous improvement
- Lead structured failure analysis and RMA feedback loops to improve silicon quality and manufacturability
- Drive test time optimization and cost efficiency
- Establish production system frameworks (capacity, cycle time, output predictability, recovery models)
- Identify and eliminate scale-induced failure modes (test escapes, yield cliffs, supply gaps)
- Leverage data analytics / telemetry (e.g. Advantest RTDI, test platforms) for real-time decision making
- Partner with OSAT, foundry, and system integrators to drive execution readiness and capacity scaling
- Ensure alignment on build plans, material readiness, and recovery strategies
- Lead cross-functional resolution of execution risks across the supply chain
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years in product / test / manufacturing engineering for advanced silicon (CPU, GPU, AI SoC)
- Strong expertise in:
- Proven track record delivering NPI → HVM ramp in complex silicon programs
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience scaling hyperscale / datacenter silicon programs
- Deep understanding of advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, chiplets) and system-level interactions
- Familiarity with data/AI-driven manufacturing systems (e.g., predictive yield, telemetry analytics)
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management
Screening 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.
- This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
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.**