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Principal Product Engineer

Microsoft


Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 142800 - 274800
Posted: 6 October 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 a Principal Product Engineer to help achieve that mission.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design development manufacturing and packaging of Microsofts state-of-the-art computer chips notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

As Microsofts 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 goalthe Silicon Manufacturing & Packaging Engineering (SMPE) 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 a Principal Product Engineer 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 aPrincipal Product Engineer to join the team.



Responsibilities

The position will have responsibility for product/test engineering for new product development and manufacturing.

  • The position requires someone with experience in semiconductor IC development IC manufacturing fabrication testing and packaging.
  • Drive pre-Si readiness for power performance Thermal and Power delivery (LDOs Integrated VRs) related tests and features for successful bring up during power on. Drive Power and Performance tuning during post-Si phase in partnership with platform teams.
  • Drive ATE test program implementation to optimize for SOC power/TDP. Work closely with platform/system engineers to drive necessary correlation work to enable such optimizations.
  • Drive product manufacturing fuse requirements and end to end data flow for fusing across various test sockets.
  • Successful candidates should have good project leadership skills to manage external vendors drive cross functional teams and drive sub-projects as part of larger development programs.
  • They should alsohave excellent knowledge of ATE test program development including test method development test bring-up characterization debug and yield analysis.
  • The candidate should also have knowledge of DFT silicon fabrication process product Q&R and basic transistor theory.
  • The candidate would benefit from a background in various product market areas such as high-performance computing AI GPUs CPUs.
  • Overall product engineering role taking product from definition to launch.



Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science 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.
  • This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations the EU Dual Use Regulation and/or other export control a condition of employment the successful candidate will be requiredto provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status(e.g. under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents refugees and asylees may verify status using other documents where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience in Product development and manufacturing in large scale and/or high performance (i.e. AI machine leaning neural nets CPUs) and/or high power SoCs/chips.
  • 10 years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits (pre-silicon first silicon bring-up new product introduction).
  • 8 years of experience in product and test engineering specializing in ATE test program development.
  • Effective presentation and communication skills.
  • Experience in
    • Leading cross functional teams and understanding program/project management.
    • Managing supply chain vendors / partners and Integrated Circuit production.
    • Experience in system/customer requirements gathering and interfacing.
    • Silicon configuration (SKU) management and internal supplier/customer interfacing
    • End-to-end product development flow and driving sample delivery milestones across the life cycle (Quality & Quantity).
  • Knowledgeable in power / performance modelling for ATE binning optimization in both pre- and post-silicon phases of the -depth understanding of ATE test program power/performance binning implementation including required characterization data collection.
  • Knowledgeable in yield recovery definition (redundancy and repair for logic array analog) and their implementation (test programs test content SKU). Drive implementation partnering with cross-functional teams.
  • Electrical Engineering and/or Device physics background.
  • System and Platform validation background is a plus. Experience working across various platforms (ATE/RVP/Customer boards) for product validation and characterization.
  • Experience with failure analysis qualification and yield analysis.
  • Effective probability and statistical background including DOEs.
  • Experience in product and test engineering and ATE test program methodologies. Advantest V93K experience is a plus.
  • Knowledgeable in DFT and DFM techniques.
  • Good understanding of bring-up/debug characterization/manufacturing test (on ATEs).
  • Device physics background.
  • Adaptability (responds explores constructive attitude).
  • Growth Mindset (It starts with a belief that everyone can grow and develop).
  • Trusted Computer architecture fundamentals/background.
  • Great unit/integration testing skills.
  • Background in debugging and optimizing software.
  • Customer Focus (anticipating needs and proactively meets expectations).
  • Drive for results (actively pursues outcome delivers on commitments).
  • Influence for impact (communicates networks persuades influences).
  • Judgement (scope problem builds & applies knowledge).

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Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



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Required Experience:

IC