Electrical Engineer, SCHIE

About the Role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission by delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online businesses. The CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability for Microsoft cloud hardware. We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to join this team.

Key Responsibilities

• Applies electrical engineering fundamentals to the development of server, compute, storage, networking, accelerator, and management-module hardware.
• Owns clearly defined board-level design tasks or subsystems with guidance from senior engineers.
• Documents designs through hardware specifications, block diagrams, and interface definitions.
• Supports proof-of-concept development by creating initial schematics and PCB layouts using the Cadence Allegro design suite.
• Reviews schematics, BOMs, component selections, and design documentation.
• Supports PCB layout reviews, including power, high-speed interfaces, connectivity, and design-rule compliance.
• Collaborates with internal electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and system engineering teams, as well as external ODM/OEM partners, to implement designs meeting product requirements.
• Collaborates with ODM EE, SI, power teams to complete detailed designs, fabricate boards, execute EE verification test plans, and review test reports.
• Performs hardware bring-up, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis at the board level.
• Demonstrates effective hardware debugging skills, including modifying boards for measurements, writing and executing test scripts, collecting and analyzing data, and documenting results.
• Operates lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, protocol analyzers, and vector network analyzers.
• Follows established engineering processes for design reviews, documentation control, component qualification, laboratory safety, issue tracking, and product release.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Electrical Engineering Fundamentals
• Schematic Capture
• PCB Layout (using Cadence Allegro)
• Analog and Digital Circuit Design
• Hardware Debugging
• Lab Equipment: Oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, protocol analyzers, vector network analyzers
• Engineering Processes: Design reviews, documentation control, component qualification, laboratory safety, issue tracking, product release.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• Solid foundation in analog and digital circuit design.
• Exposure to high-speed or high-power designs is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with board-level design, implementation, bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Experience with compute, GPU, storage, networking, and/or accelerator hardware is a plus.
• Familiarity with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and Ethernet.
• Familiarity with low-speed interfaces such as SPI, I2C/I3C, SMBus, and UART.
• Familiarity with Windows or Linux, BIOS/BMC firmware, hardware/software security, and datacenter operations at scale.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to take ownership and deliver results with appropriate guidance.
• Adaptability in a fast-paced learning environment.