Overview

In this role, you will be responsible for manufacturing research and develop to solve complex problems that directly impact final product quality, cost and delivery of Microsoft’s cutting-edge hardware devices and accessories. Candidate will be a key member of the to drive product yield and quality improvement via in depth product performance requirements. In addition, this role requires detail management of business metrics within a product cycle specifically during mass production. This position will heavily interact with the contract manufacturers and design team on wide range of activities from designing and root cause analysis to the manufacturing engineering.

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Responsibilities

• In order to be successful in this position, this individual must effectively collaborate with both the contract manufacturer and a variety of peer groups across the organization, including, but not limited to, Factory Management, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, Quality, and Hardware/Software Development.
• Manage and systematically reduce quality excursion in mass production of products.
• In depth product designs and provide engineering support and leadership at engineering builds.
• Work with contract manufacturing FA team to track production product problems and timely conduct fault isolation and failure analysis.
• Perform electrical technical analyses, recommend, prepare and execute designs-of-experiments, and characterize process and design interactions.
• Stay current and versed in emerging technologies, materials, methods and manufacturing processes.
• Generate best practices guidelines and documentation to enable efficiencies in future hardware development and sustaining activities.
• Drive clear and accurate communications and recommendations to peers and senior management by distilling complex technical challenges, outlining options, and providing supporting data.
• Liaise with product design team on DFT and provide input on design change as needed.
• Support products transfer, qualification and establish failure analysis, repair system at new contract manufacturing site.

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE, related engineering field or equivalent experience required.
• 8+ years as either a hardware engineer directly contributing to product development or high-volume manufacturing product or test engineer involving consumer electronics, electro-mechanical systems manufacturing, and integration.
• Demonstrated ability in product and statistical process control, MSA/GRR, part characterization, structured problem solving, root cause and defect/failure analysis, FMEA, DOE, FEA, reliability testing, core and advanced metrology, statistical data analysis.
• Proficiency with statistical analysis, including usage of tools such as JMP or Minitab.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English.

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:

• Direct involvement in NPI (New Product Introduction) and manufacturing operations experience.
• Candidate with design background will be preferred.
• PowerShell and Python script development capabilities are preferred.
• Lean and 6 sigma certificates are preferred.

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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.

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