Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, 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 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 seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior Power Engineer you will be involved in helping architect, develop and qualify new solutions and platforms to improve performance, cost, reliability and efficiency at the server, Rack and Row level.

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Responsibilities

• 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 CHIE 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years combined experience working in the server/storage/data center industry. 

• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving power supply or power delivery issues.

• Familiarity with EMI, Safety, and general agency requirements.

• Ability to create specifications and requirements.

• Excellent writing skills and use of Microsoft Office products

• Familiarity and experience with Battery backup operation and design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to instrument and test power supplies and converters in the lab including use of oscilloscopes, power meters, electronic loads, DMM’s and electronic sources. 

• Strong project management skills, system and sub-system level design knowledge, experienced in team leadership, a detailed background in ODM/JDM development and manufacturing processes plus an innate ability to think outside the box 

• In depth knowledge of data center power infrastructure and delivery. 

• Familiarity with 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 good soldering skills. 

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

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