New 
Principal Power Hardware Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Austin | |
 Jul 26, 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 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 Hardware Engineer to join the team.
ResponsibilitiesLead system-level design and development for both AI and non-AI systems.Serve as the technical voice for power infrastructure design across Azure at Microsoft.Influence architecture, engineering, and validation processes to ensure high-quality product delivery.Develop and deploy solutions enabling reliable end-to-end power delivery.Architect and design advanced xPU power conversion/delivery systems for applications including AI/ML, general-purpose data center computing, and storage.Analyze and compare design solutions to guide optimal power system architecture.Collaborate with suppliers, industry partners, product managers, and cross-functional engineering teams to define system requirements and specifications.Perform simulations, modeling, and validation of power systems using SIMPLIS and SPICE tools.Support projects from concept through production, including documentation and issue resolution.Assist in the creation of detailed product specifications.Support testing and test planning throughout all development stages. | |