Principal Compute Platform Architect

The Azure Platform Architecture team is looking for a Principal Compute Platform Architect to define future generations of server architectures.  The successful candidate will have demonstrated significant experience in server designs including compute, storage, networking and systems management. Our team is at the forefront of technology and system design, leading the way for the next generation of platforms. Our mission is to architect the most performant, secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions that are deployed at hyperscale to power Azure. The Principal Compite Platform Architect filling this role will be the subject matter expert for a Compute family, working across multiple domains to optimize designs for our highest volume platforms. This person will collaborate with the Planning and Sourcing teams and with Mechanical and Thermal Architects on requirements capture, technology insertion, concept proposals, cost/performance tradeoffs, prototype engineering, and architectural documentation for design/planning reviews. Once a program is approved from a conceptual level, the Principal Compute Platform Architect will partner with the Development team to ensure a smooth transition to full product development.  

The Azure Platform Architecture team is part of a broader hardware and infrastructure organization known as the Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE). SCHIE is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 200+ online businesses including Teams, OneDrive, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, Bing, MSN and the Microsoft Azure platform globally.  We architect and design the server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions to support these businesses. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.  We are looking for passionate, growth-minded engineers to help us achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, at hyperscale, with high reliability and the best performance/price level is paramount. 

Come join this exciting and growing team through our monumental evolution of cloud hardware at Azure and Microsoft!  

Open to up to 100% work from home in the U.S.A!

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Expertise in multi-disciplinary server platform architecture and design. 
• Ability to analyze solutions from a full Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) perspective, including but not limited to: CAPEX, OPEX, the system constraints that drive design tradeoffs, technology, quality and serviceability. 
• Effective communication skills to influence and partner across many Azure business and engineering teams.

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:

• Server PCBA design experience including schematic, layout, routing, power, and signal integrity. 
• Experience deploying systems at scale as part of a cloud service provider or hyper-scale company.
• Demonstrated expertise in balancing challenging electrical designs with complex mechanical and thermal tradeoffs of system design. 
• Knowledge of leading processor/memory technologies and industry standards, such as DC-MHS. 
• Demonstrated expertise with high speed signaling and interconnects including PCIe/CXL.   
• Strong intellectual curiosity and a passion for challenging the status quo and driving disruptive innovation. 

Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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This Principal Compute platform architecture role will require innovation, technology & partnerships skills: 

• Customer Focus – partner across Microsoft teams, collaborating to architect solutions for customer challenges. 
• Industry Influence - Drive and influence external technology providers, design partners and standards bodies towards optimal components, solutions and standards to meet the future Azure infrastructure requirements. 
• Technology Leadership – Drive concepts, definition & designs for industry leading Azure server platforms and generate intellectual property to help strengthen Microsoft’s position as a leader in Cloud Computing.  
• Partnerships – build trusted relationships with our internal technology and development partners to enable leading edge innovation in our next generation products, while optimizing performance, costs and risks.   
• Drive Clarity - Distill and articulate architectural tradeoffs encompassing electrical, signal integrity, mechanical, power, and thermal inputs in terms of key metrics such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), performance, schedule, and risk.