Senior Principal Product Development - Hardware

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 deliveringa trustedexperience to customers and partnersworldwideand we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

This executive leader will be responsible for driving operational excellence, innovation, and scalable processes across our hardware development and sustainment ecosystem. As a senior technical leader, this role will partner closely with the CVP to define, mature, and institutionalize the processes that enable Microsoft to design, deliver, and sustain worldclass hardware platforms at cloud scale.

This leader will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of hardware engineering within the organization-bringing deep technical insight, systemslevel thinking, and strong operational discipline to ensure our hardware strategy, development workflows, and lifecycle processes are robust, repeatable, and datadriven. Their expertise will directly influence the quality, reliability, velocity, and longterm sustainability of Microsoft's hardware roadmap, particularly as we scale to meet the demands of AI infrastructure.

We are seeking a candidate with extensive experience leading complex hardware programs and transforming engineering organizations through clarity of process, technical depth, and a datacentric approach to continuous improvement. This individual will collaborate crossfunctionally to ensure precise definition of system requirements, drive alignment across engineering teams, and use telemetry, analytics, and structured methodologies to mature engineering workflows across the product lifecycle.

In addition to technical leadership, the ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building, developing, and inspiring highperforming teams. They will serve as a senior leader who attracts toptier talent, fosters an environment of engineering excellence, and strengthens Microsoft's position as a destination for worldclass hardware engineers.

* Technical Leadership & Strategy
Lead the definition and evolution of scalable, repeatable processes across hardware development and sustainment. Provide strategic technical direction that strengthens engineering rigor, accelerates execution, and ensures operational excellence at cloud scale. Serve as the catalyst who translates strategy into actionable, governed execution-turning vision into reality for the organization.

* CrossFunctional Collaboration
Partner closely with development teams across Microsoft, ODM partners, and platform engineering groups to ensure system requirements are clearly defined, aligned, and executed with precision throughout the product lifecycle. Act as a trusted collaborator who enables alignment across diverse technical and organizational boundaries.

* Process & Engineering Innovation
Drive continuous improvements in hardware development workflows using data, telemetry, and modern engineering methodologies. Champion new approaches that enhance reliability, velocity, and quality of complex hardware platforms, ensuring innovations move from concept to adopted practice across teams.

* Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment
Influence and communicate effectively with senior Microsoft and supplier leaders to ensure alignment on scalable architectures, engineering best practices, and longterm platform strategy. Act as a key sounding board to the CVP-helping refine, pressuretest, and operationalize major scaling initiatives.

* Operational Excellence & DataDriven Execution
Establish and uphold the highest standards for quality, sustainability, and resilience across hardware development. Leverage analytics, insights, and engineering data to optimize processes, reduce variability, and enable predictable, highconfidence execution. Operate as a strong executor who can convert ideas into durable, orgwide outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications:

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:

• BS / MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience.

• 15+ years of relevant experience in system (compute, storage, networking, and/or accelerator) level design and/or implementation across the hardware development lifecycle.

• 10+ years of experience in end-to-end cloud hardware system development and manufacturing across all stages of development and at large scale deployment.

• Experience leading engineering teams.

• Proven experience with large scale, end-to-end cloud system hardware manufacturing.

• Experience leading systems validation strategies and debugging complex hardware technologies for product development.
• HW architecture and design principles around Server design lifecycle & tools

• Knowledge of high-volume silicon (SoCs, GPUs, or FPGAs), compute, storage, and/or networking design, manufacturing, and deployment.

• Experience with verification of highspeed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, and ethernet.

• Understanding of datacenters and large-scale operations.

• Experience managing hardware programsthroughthe entire product lifecycle.

• Demonstrates executive-level communication and presentation skills in both verbal and written forms.

• Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.

• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage complexity while driving clarity.

• Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder processes, orchestrating across teams.

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Hardware Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.