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About the Role

The Cloud Hardware and System Engineering (CHSE) team is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to serve as the Storage System Technical Lead (STL). This role provides end-to-end technical leadership for the development of next-generation Azure storage hardware platforms, bridging architecture and execution. The STL ensures hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, and operational workstreams converge into a complete, high-quality system solution, owning technical execution, cross-functional integration, design quality, technical readiness, and program-level technical decisions. As Azure expands to support data-intensive cloud and AI workloads, this role is critical in defining and delivering the systems engineering required for new cloud hardware platforms from concept through fleet operations, aligning architecture, platform design, firmware, validation, manufacturing, and operations.

Responsibilities

Provide end-to-end system technical leadership for Azure storage platforms during hardware development and validation, translating approved requirements and architecture into an executable cross-functional technical strategy.
Drive timely program-level technical decisions across hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, datacenter integration, and operations, balancing performance, capacity, reliability, availability, serviceability, security, power, cost, schedule, and implementation risk.
Establish the quality bar for system specifications, subsystem interfaces, design documentation, design reviews, validation strategies, test plans, and launch criteria, and maintain traceability from requirements through validation and deployment evidence.
Identify integration gaps and assess new, unique, difficult, or differentiated technologies and features across subsystems, suppliers, and lifecycle phases; define dependencies, owners, risks, mitigations, validation needs, and closure criteria.
Lead or sponsor system design reviews with Microsoft engineering teams, silicon and component partners, and original design manufacturers (ODMs), and confirm that qualification, interoperability, and manufacturing test coverage address system requirements and risks.
Lead cross-functional resolution of complex issues found during design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, or fleet operation, driving root cause, corrective action, verified closure, and propagation of fixes and lessons learned.
Partner with the Technical Program Manager and Product Owner to assess the technical impact of proposed changes, drive milestone readiness, provide technical approvals defined by program governance, and communicate concise status, risks, decisions, and help-needed items to leadership.
Collaborate across architecture, silicon, electrical, mechanical, thermal, power, firmware, operating systems, validation, systems engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, datacenter engineering, operations, suppliers, ODMs, and customer-facing teams to align subsystem decisions, resolve cross-domain dependencies, and deliver an integrated storage platform.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

Extensive experience designing or developing storage hardware platforms, including storage head nodes, just a bunch of disks (JBOD), just a bunch of flash (JBOF), or comparable high-capacity storage systems, and integrating hardware, firmware, and operating systems.
Experience leading cross-functional technical decisions, storage-system validation strategies, and resolution of complex system-level issues.
Broad technical understanding across electrical design, signal integrity, mechanical design, thermal engineering, power delivery, processors, memory, storage, networking, system management, security, and industry standards.
Experience developing high-capacity or high-availability storage systems and familiarity with storage controllers, PCIe, NVMe, solid-state drives (SSDs), hard-disk drives (HDDs), SAS, Ethernet, and related system interfaces.
Experience evaluating, integrating, or debugging high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, SAS, or comparable technologies at the system level.
Knowledge of system firmware, including BIOS, baseboard management controllers (BMCs), system management protocols, telemetry, update, recovery, and security considerations.
Knowledge of Windows, Linux, or other operating-system interactions with server and storage hardware.
Experience integrating silicon, systems on chip (SoCs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), controllers, or other complex components into high-volume systems.
Experience working with ODMs, silicon suppliers, component suppliers, manufacturing partners, and geographically distributed engineering teams.
Experience taking complex hardware platforms through architecture, design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, and sustained operation.
Experience debugging complex system-level issues and driving root cause, corrective action, validation, and cross-platform fix propagation.
Understanding of datacenter deployment, serviceability, fleet operations, reliability, and infrastructure operation at scale.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries without relying on direct management authority.
Proven written, verbal, and executive communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs, risks, decisions, and help-needed items clearly.

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Education Level

Master's Degree
Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. base pay range)
USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range)

Benefits

Eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

The Cloud Hardware and System Engineering (CHSE team) are part of Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) that designs and delivers the silicon, hardware systems, firmware, software and other and foundational technologies that power Microsoft Azure.
Our teams work across silicon, servers, storage, networking, accelerators, datacenters, security, and operations to build infrastructure that is reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable for Microsoft’s global cloud services.
We are looking for engineers who want to shape the next generation of cloud infrastructure and deliver trusted experiences for customers worldwide.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.