Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Overview Microsoft 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 online businesses, including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Teams, OneDrive, Xbox Live, Bing, and MSN. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, deploying new hardware infrastructure on time, at high volume, with high quality and competitive cost is increasingly important. The Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering team defines and delivers operational measures of success for cloud hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability. We are looking for a Senior Hardware Manufacturing Engineer who combines deep manufacturing engineering fundamentals with strategic thinking and disciplined program execution. The Manufacturing Engineering Group collaborates with Microsoft's suppliers, design engineering teams, quality and reliability teams, business managers, sourcing, and supply chain organizations to ensure new cloud hardware is available to customers on time and at high levels of quality. A critical part of this work is ensuring Microsoft-designed hardware can be built at supplier factories safely, efficiently, repeatedly, and at scale. In this role, you will lead manufacturing strategy and execution from early design engagement through NPI, qualification, production ramp, and sustaining operations for complex custom-silicon and cloud-hardware platforms, including GPU and AI systems. Particular emphasis will include manufacturing engineering for GPU and AI systems using high-speed optical networking, where optical modules, high-speed cable and fiber assemblies, liquid-cooled trays, rack-level fiber infrastructure, and cross-supplier interoperability create new manufacturing, qualification, reliability, and production-ramp challenges. You will understand product and process details, identify systemic manufacturing risks, translate high-level objectives into executable plans, and deliver results by influencing cross-functional v-teams and external manufacturing partners. You will solve ambiguous technical and operational problems, align diverse stakeholders, establish clear manufacturing plans and metrics, and drive risks to closure across geographically distributed teams. #azurehwjobs #HIFE Responsibilities Manufacturing Technical Leadership: Serve as the senior manufacturing engineering lead for assigned cloud-hardware, GPU, optical-networking, and custom-silicon programs. Own the manufacturing technical strategy from early architecture through sustaining production, ensuring products can be built, tested, repaired, scaled, and supported reliably across global factories. Design for Manufacturing and Product Industrialization: Lead DFM, DFA, testability, serviceability, packaging, automation, tolerance, and sustainability reviews with design, NPI, quality, reliability, supplier, and factory teams. Identify product and process constraints early, quantify risk, and influence architecture and design decisions to improve manufacturability, yield, cost, reliability, and time to market. Manufacturing Architecture and Technical Ownership: Serve as the manufacturing technical authority for assigned products and systems. Translate product architecture into production processes, equipment and tooling strategies, assembly sequences, inspection and test methods, process controls, repair boundaries, supplier requirements, and factory qualification plans. Maintain accountability for the technical integrity of the manufacturing solution from early architecture through sustaining production. GPU and Optical Networking Manufacturing: Lead manufacturing architecture, D…

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