Senior Quality Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

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, high-energy 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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 Senior Quality Engineer to join the team. #azurehwjobs #HIFE

Requirements

Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR 12+ years relevant technical engineering experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

5+ years of experience in leading large-scale taskforce.
10+ years of working experience in product quality discipline in Electronics Industry.
Demonstrated experience as natural leader of cross functional teams in a fast-paced environment is essential.
Experience in product quality, reliability, or product engineering for PCB, PCBA and Electronic assembly & Servers.
Solid understanding of quality tools such as 8D, CLCA, SPC, Pareto charts, FMEA, GR&R, FAI, CPK, PPAP etc.
Familiar with measurements, ability to identify program NUDD, product CTQ & process CTP.
Familiar with metrics control, for example FPY, LRR and VLRR
Experience at DFM. Preferably in OEM/ODM/CM industry
Deep understanding of PCB, PCBA and server assembly process

Responsibilities

Ensuring the quality performance of either products or suppliers.
Work experience with component manufactures and servers manufactures suppliers.
Collaborate with internal counterparts, engineering teams and suppliers to monitor performance, resolve technical issues and drive technical improvements.
Influence x-functional partners and suppliers to ensure KPIs and metrics are met.
Work to enhance quality and yields/metrics, process control, critical issue management, and risk analysis and reduction at both supplier and data center.
Sustaining Management: Receive the product after introduction and control quality from growth to end of life product lifecycle phases.
Quality Risk management: Effectively manage quality issues and risks by containing, mitigating, and resolving top-quality issues affecting global data centers.
Supplier Quality Management & Control: Implement a robust supplier quality management strategy to ensure the highest quality standards in data center hardware manufacturing.
Continuous Improvement: Work with internal counterparts and suppliers to develop strategies to continuously improve products and processes.
Spare Quality Continuity of Supply Support and Management.