Principal Power System Electrical 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 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 engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the CHSE (Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering) 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. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal Power System Electrical Engineer to join the System Design team.

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Responsibilities

• Define and design rack power systems to enable integration of a variety of IT gears into Microsoft data centers

• Work with cross-functional teams to drive product qualification full test coverage to meet product requirements and ensure product deployment

• Contribute to rack level power system solution roadmap with cross-functional teams and vendor partners to ensure long term scalability of Microsoft power infrastructure

• Lead system stability analysis using impedance-based methods and other advanced modeling techniques.

• Drive simulation and modeling efforts for system transient and steady-state analysis

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on power delivery for high-performance compute (HPC), AI workloads, and ODM platforms.

• Define and enforce power system design standards, safety protocols, and compliance with global regulatory requirements.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical leadership across the infrastructure organization.

• Engage with external partners, suppliers, and academic collaborators to advance power system innovation.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in power system engineering, power system stability, preferably in rack power or data center environments.Proven experience in electromagnetic field simulation and design
• Proven expertise HVDC power system protection coordination, fault current modeling
• Proven understanding of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), grounding, and thermal management.
• Deep understanding of Analyze safety and protection systems for HVDC powr rack, including Protection coordination, fault current modeling, Arc flash incident energy calculations, leakage current detection/localization
• Expertise in using Maxwell 2D/3D and Matlab/Simulink for power distribution transient and thermal analysis
• 5+ years of experience with product bring-up and troubleshooting skills with power supply testing methodologies
• 5+ years of experience developing design specifications, design guidelines, and test plans
• Familiar with safety standards and application process
• Familiar with power supply qualification standard and process, such as components derating, MTBF and EMC
• Detail oriented communication skills
• Experience with Data center power delivery is a plus
• Familiar with DC/DC power system design and evaluation is a plus
• Experience with power system integration in ODM or CSP environments is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience with design and simulation tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Ansys Maxwell 2D/3D, PLECS, and Python, Cadence, Mathcad, LTSpice, Simetrix/Simplis or PSCAD.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Hardware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.