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Principal Electrical Engineer

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Redmond, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2026
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.

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 Electrical Engineer to join the team.

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Responsibilities

  • Understand customer requirements and high-level architectural design, lead electrical design execution at system level, responsible for detailed design specifications.
  • Drive internal design collaboration among all functional teams (thermal, mechanical, firmware, OS), guide external partners (ODM/OEM/Suppliers) for detailed design implementation, ensure product functionality, performance, quality and reliability.
  • Responsible for complete and deep design review, including schematics, board files, BOM, DFT, DFM, etc.
  • Work with team members to define board level bring-up and electrical test requirements, ensure complete coverage, execute or guarantee execution.
  • Work with partner teams to create system level bring-up and end-to-end validation test plans, ensure complete coverage, guarantee execution.
  • Troubleshooting, issue triage, leading hardware related debug efforts with partner teams, drive resolution and bug reports.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience
    • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
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 high volume hardware production in compute, storage, networking, accelerator and/or management module
  • Knowledge about datacenters & operations at scale
  • Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet.
  • In-depth experience with operating systems (Windows and/or Linux), system firmware (BIOS, BMC), and system security (hardware and software)
  • Proven verbal and written communication and presentation skills
  • 10 years of relevant hands-on experience in system level (compute, storage, networking, accelerator card and or management module) design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle
  • Experience with high-speed and high-power products design
  • 10 years' experience developing board and system level bring-up and test plans
  • Experience executing hardware validation and functional test plans
  • 10 years' experience debugging board and system level issues for Cloud Servers
  • Ability to work across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) to identify risks, drive discussions, detail system tradeoffs, and assess impact
  • Excellent team player

Electrical Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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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.

Salary : $139,900 - $274,800

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