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Senior Hardware Design Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Santa Clara | |
 Oct 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and 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, 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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team brings together state-of-the-art software and hardware expertise to create a highly programmable and high-performance ASIC with the capability to efficiently handle large data streams. Thanks to its integrated design, this solution empowers teams to operate with increased agility and deliver significantly superior performance compared to CPU-based alternatives. Central to our mission is development of platforms for Azure Datacenters based on our highly programmable data processing chip (DPU). As a Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the design & development of hardware platforms that shall be used for various applications like Storage, Compute & AI. We are looking for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join our team!
ResponsibilitiesDesign & develop high-speed boards based on the architecture specification document and deliver detailed HW functional specification documentWork with cross-functional teams to review the hardware functional specification document and ensure the design meets all the requirements.Work with manufacturing team to review the design and ensure the DFM requirements are metWork with Diagnostics & HW Test engineers to review the test plans and ensure there is no test coverage gapThorough testing and validation of hardware products to ensure compliance with specifications, requirements and quality standards.Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting of hardware defects in a timely manner and implement preventive measures for future occurrences | |