Microsoft
Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.
Looking to be a key part of one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses? We have a great position for you, Hardware Engineering Program Manager. Azure is at the center of enabling cloud computing for Microsoft services and our public cloud business. The Product Data Management Engineering Team is responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of several Hardware offerings to support Azure technologies in Mission Critical Data Centers.
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Responsibilities
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and influence the way one of the world’s largest and fastest growing Cloud environments is built and supported. As a critical part of the PDM Hardware Engineering team within Microsoft’s CSCP Organization, this role will work with internal stakeholders to create building blocks, Bill of Materials (BOM’s), and Row level hardware design documentation and product data model. You will ensure that the design documentation conforms to Data Center Infrastructure standards. This role requires advanced industry knowledge in this specific engineering domain and shares knowledge with the team. Reads hardware specification sheets to create robust design structures, and dashboards. Identifies potential risks. Uses hardware engineering analyses to identify flaws, brainstorms possible solutions, and brings them to the attention of team leads. Implements or recommends technical solutions to issues and provides guidance to other team members. Implements and tracks product plans with minimal guidance. Provides recommendations to help develop product plans and communicate status with team throughout the program. Provides recommendations to project team members based on research and data analysis. Develops and delivers training. Documents complex details about materials and functionality for a hardware, and tracks changes to designs.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Work with many enterprise-class servers and networking technologies to create designs used to deploy hardware into Data Center
- Contributes to program schedule to deliver the engineering aspects. Escalates issues as necessary.
- Generate technical specs for BOM’s, design and all other product data characteristics in the document using data provided by various teams in Microsoft and interprets complex details required.
- Identifies opportunities that affect downstream execution by resolving issues.
- Specify, collate, create, update, and maintain the design and supply chain characteristics for Microsoft products using PDM system.
- Build a server Bill of materials using discrete manufacturer and Microsoft part numbers and attach associated documents.
- Communicates project progress/status within the project team and escalates issues as necessary.
- Upload the parts into a central library hosted by Microsoft PLM/PDM (product lifecycle management/product design management) system, or another method followed in the Microsoft system.
- Review correctness of the parts against specifications given in datasheets and manufacturers recommendations and Microsoft specific DFM guidelines.
- Validate the configuration and work with the PDM hardware engineering team to resolve any issues through the PLM and workflow tools (Azure Dev Ops)
- Interface with several internal stakeholder teams, gather requirements and provide feedback on design feasibility and constraints as needed.
- Develops and delivers training along with training materials, documents, and templates.
- Manage multiple projects and work across a global multi-cultural team to drive influence, schedules, and timelines to meet project goals.
- Uses data/statistical analyses to identify complex problems or flaws and identifies possible solutions and brings them to the attention of team leads.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
4 to 10 years of total experience and 4+ years of relevant technical experience with bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or equivalent field
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