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, high-energy 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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 < Sr. Product Quality Engineer > to join the team.

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Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a robust product quality management strategy to ensure the data center hardware is manufactured at the highest level of quality standards.

• Manage multiple NPI to Sustain Building Block product quality and provide phase-gate deliverables for the manufacturing team throughout the engineering development lifecycle, from concept through production readiness.

• Lead quality issues or improvement task force to contain, mitigate, and resolve the top-quality issues impacting global data centers.

• Establish Critical-to-Quality performance metrics to measure and improve product quality.

• Lead the team to identify the potential product quality risk and drive the continuous improvement process based on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and identified opportunities.

• To conduct system failure analysis by work with cross organizational teams globally.

• Act as the voice of quality in the hardware change management process, ensuring quality requirements are considered and met.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or Computer Science.

• Minimum of 2 years of direct system level related engineering experience in issue debug/test log review.

• Minimum of 3 years of direct engineering experience in PCBA hardware issue solving.

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in managing product quality in the electronic industry.

• Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams and drive a call to action.

• Deep understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action methods to identify contributing factors of production defects.

• Ability to analyze large data sets, extract key insights, and effectively present and communicate the results.

• Strong communication and project management skills.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in Electronics.

• 10+ years of working experience in the electronics industry or supplier quality for the cloud server industry.

• Familiarity with data center environments, including infrastructure, networking, power distribution, and repair processes and procedures.

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.

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