Principal Power Engineer

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 A Principal Power Engineer to help achieve that mission.

We are looking for a Principal Power Engineer to join the team.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) 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 passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.

• 5+ years working in the power industry developing AC-DC power supplies and power solutions.

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:

• Experience with instrument and test power supplies and converters in the lab including use of oscilloscopes, power meters, electronic loads, Digital Multi Meters (DMM) and electronic sources.

• Experience in specifying, designing, and qualifying UPS platforms.

• Experience in writing embedded systems code for AC-DC power supplies or power applications.

• Project management skills, system and sub-system level design knowledge, experienced in team leadership, a detailed background in Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) / Joint Design Manufacturing (JDM) development and manufacturing processes.

• Demonstrated knowledge of data center power infrastructure and delivery.

• Familiarity with Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) layout for low loss and low noise power conversion and analyze and view PCB layout from a power perspective.

• Ability to rework Power supply and server PCB's including soldering skills.

• Experience in architecting new designs and concepts in the server storage and compute industry.

• Experience in designing and developing battery back up and energy storage device

Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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 •

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Work closely with multiple server Platform teams to create and support state of the art power solutions and delivery for numerous parallel program developments.

• Work with Rack level development programs to develop and support leading edge power delivery and conversion solutions at the rack to server level.

• Support system engineering, Mechanical Engineering and global integration partners in executing new designs.

• Be a power subject matter expert to internal and external SCHIE partners to resolve issues and obstacles as they arise in development and production.

• Work with Data Center Engineering and management to support/suggest infrastructure changes and improvements.

• Position requires working with and developing relationships with Microsoft internal quality, reliability, Agency, supply chain and Data center teams to ensure a smooth product delivery from concept to end of life.

• Position also requires support of PDU's, UPS's, Power conditioners, Circuit Breakers, Bus Bars, Battery Backup, ATS's.

• Position requires ability to create specifications, and ability to test and support testing of all solutions in all stages of development.

• Other

• Embody our Culture and Values