Senior Hardware Engineer DCDC Power

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 Microsofts 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 CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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 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 Senior Hardware Engineer - DC/DC Power to join the team.

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• Architect and validate DC-DC power delivery systems for compute storage and AI platforms.

• Lead design and simulation of multiphase regulators point-of-load converters and high-power ASIC module integration.

• Develop power solution concepts with critical insights into trade-offs risks and benefits

• Oversight guidance and review power development activity within engineering to ensure alignment to requirements and assist in key risk management mitigations

• Support engineering technical leads power engineers and SI engineers on constraints components selection power tree design test plans bring-up and debug as needed.

• Participate in industry organizations and supplier engagements driving leading edge power solutions

• Drive root cause analysis and resolution of complex power-related issues in production and development environments.

• Collaborate with ODMs and suppliers to qualify power components and systems.

• Conduct EMI thermal and reliability testing across global deployments.

• Influence product architecture and roadmap through deep domain expertise in DC-DC power systems.

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers and cross-functional partners.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

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:

• 5 years (MS) or 3 years (PhD) of experience in multiphase regulation point-of-load conversion and system-level integration.
• Proven design knowledge and experience in power converter control theory PWM converter such as Buck boost buck/boost and resonant converter such as LLC.
• Experience with design/simulation tools (e.g. LTspiceSimplis/Simetrix Cadance or Altium).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction.
• 5 years (MS) or 3 years (PhD) of experience in DC-DC power system design and validation.
• Experience with highfrequency or highpower inductor design including custom magnetics corematerial and loss optimization coupled/TLVR inductors saturation modeling AC/DC loss characterization and ability to use simulation tools such as HFSS is a plus
• Experience with high power DCDC module design
• Experience with vertical power module design is a plus
• SI/PI experience with simulation tools PowerDC PowerSI SIwave or ADS is a plus
• Experience in hyperscale data center infrastructure and ODM/JDM development.
• Familiarity with PCB layout for low-loss and low-noise power conversion.
• Advanced package power delivery and packagelevel PDN optimization (decaps routing power planes impedance transient tuning) is a plus
• Packageintegrated power technologies for nextgeneration platforms (IVR/SIVR embedded/interposer regulation integrated magnetics) is a plus
• 5 years of experience with product bring-up and troubleshooting skills with power supply testing methodologies
• 5 years of experience developing design specifications design guidelines and test plans
• Familiar with digital bus design such as I2C/PMBus Modbus and CANbus
• Familiar with power supply qualification standard and process such as components derating MTBF and EMC
• Detail oriented communication skills
• Experience with Data center power delivery is a plus
• Familiar with DC/DC power system design and evaluation is a plus
• Experience with power system integration in ODM or CSP environments is a plus.

Electrical Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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