Director, Power Hardware Engineering

Overview
The Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) organization is responsible for developing and delivering the hardware and firmware that is 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, Skype, 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. We are looking for a Director, Power Hardware Engineering to join the team. The Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) 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. As Director, Power Hardware Engineering, you will be the technical voice focusing on design efforts specific to power infrastructure across Azure within Microsoft. You will be leading system level design and development, for AI and non-AI systems, influencing architecture, engineering, and validation for our products to deliver high quality solutions to the customers. You will also be responsible to develop and deploy solutions that enable reliable end to end delivery. This is an opportunity to work on next generation architecture and provide innovative solutions to customers.

Responsibilities

1. Work closely with multiple server Platform teams to create and support state of the art high power solutions and delivery for numerous parallel program developments.
2. Work with Rack level development programs to develop and support leading edge high power delivery and conversion solutions at the rack to server level.
3. Work hand in hand with Architect teams developing high quality, high reliability high power delivery using 48VDC and HVDC power shelf voltage levels and distribution.
4. Support system engineering, Mechanical Engineering and global integration partners in executing new designs.
5. Be a power subject matter expert to internal and external CHIE partners to resolve issues and obstacles as they arise in development and production.
6. Work with Data Center Engineering and management to support/suggest infrastructure changes and improvements.
7. Develop relationships with Microsoft internal quality, reliability, Agency, supply chain and Data center teams to ensure a smooth product delivery from concept to end of life.
8. Support PDU's, UPS's, Power conditioners, Circuit Breakers, Bus Bars, Battery Backup, ATS's.
9. Create specifications and support testing of all solutions in all stages of development.