Principal Silicon Operations Engineering Lead

Overview Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware 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, 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 trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. Our team is creative and resourceful; we value growth and learning. We want to amplify your abilities so you can do your best work. Join us, and together we will turn groundbreaking hardware designs into reality! Microsoft's Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering organization is seeking a Lead Negotiator, EDA Tools & Strategy to own the commercial strategy, negotiation, and lifecycle governance of Microsoft's Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon engineering technology portfolio. This role is the single point of accountability for how Microsoft acquires, deploys, and optimizes EDA tools across a global custom silicon organization. You will lead enterprise negotiations and renewals with the semiconductor industry's largest EDA and IP suppliers, shape the multi-year tooling strategy in partnership with CAD and silicon design leadership, and establish the licensing, consumption analytics, and supplier governance frameworks that turn a multi-hundred-million-dollar tooling portfolio into measurable engineering leverage. You will operate across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Legal, influence executive stakeholders without direct authority, and translate deep technical requirements into commercial terms that scale with Microsoft's long-term silicon roadmap. #azurehwjobs #SCHIE #MILE Responsibilities EDA Commercial Strategy & Negotiation Leadership Serve as Microsoft's lead negotiator for EDA, design IP, and silicon engineering technology agreements, owning deal strategy, negotiation planning, and term structures through executive approval and signature. Define the multi-year commercial strategy across the EDA supplier portfolio, including renewal sequencing, competitive leverage, bundling and unbundling decisions, and alternative sourcing options. Build negotiation business cases with modeled scenarios, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, benchmarking, and executive recommendations that balance engineering capability against cost and risk. Partner with Procurement and Legal to structure enterprise agreements, licensing constructs, and contract terms that scale with silicon program demand and protect Microsoft's long-term flexibility. Own post-signature contract governance including amendments, true-ups, entitlement compliance, audit readiness, and escalation management. EDA Portfolio, Licensing & Cost Optimization Own planning, forecasting, reporting, and financial governance for Microsoft's EDA and engineering tooling portfolio. Drive license optimization through consumption analytics, peak-demand modeling, license pooling strategies, and reallocation across silicon programs, phases, and geographies. Partner closely with Finance on budget, accrual, and forecast accuracy, and deliver quantified savings and cost-avoidance targets year over year. Establish demand management and chargeback models that create accountability for tool consumption across engineering teams. Supplier Relationship & Performance Governance Own executive-level relationships with EDA vendors. Define and operate supplier KPIs, SLAs, quarterly business reviews, roadmap reviews, and escalation frameworks. Hold suppliers accountable for support quality, roadmap commitments, and delivery ag…

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