PLATFORM ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - MICROSOFT HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

Are you passionate about building cool devices and technologies? We focus on bringing to life Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that people wants and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing.

We are currently building the next generation devices and we need you!

Role & Opportunity:

We are looking for an Electrical Engineer to focus on the electrical system integration for next generation hardware products. A strong mix of technical breadth and depth will allow you to work cross-functionally with different disciplines (Industrial Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, Software and Firmware) to develop compelling innovative products. You will work with internal and external partners, focusing on delivering the next amazing hardware experience for our customers.

Travel Required: 30%

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead high impact system electrical development of a product.

• Work with and lead our Asia development partners through the course of a program.

• Collaborate with mechanical engineering, software, hardware verification, and many other engineering and design disciplines to optimize the overall system of the product throughout the course of development and into production.

• Works with suppliers, contractors, and engineering services to ensure that the product is developed on time with high quality.

• Be the guide for our development partners in Asia to ensure they meet the high standards of our products.

• Conducts design/debug investigations and support development, maintenance, failure analysis, and resolution activities. Ensure that development partners are working with the same attention to detail.

• Review partner proposals for technical feasibility and help to ascertain risk to develop the program.

• Develop project documentation including specifications, schedules and presentations as appropriate and communicate the product design to internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Minimum BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field. MS Preferred.

• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping high volume consumer electronics products of medium to high complexity.

• Hands-on design and factory shipping experience required in a broad-range of tablet/laptop sub-systems ranging from: RF, analog, digital, audio, video, power, electromechanical, low power, charging, display, and sensors.

• Understanding of power architecture, system-level analysis EMC/desense mitigation techniques and its impact in mobile / cellular products.

• Strong problem solving and debug and failure analysis skills with a solid understanding of core engineering principles, fundamental circuit design, and analytical techniques as required to help guide our Asia development partners.

• Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms.

• Experience preferred with Qualcomm and Intel platform architectures and implementation of critical buses. (memory, TBT, DP, eDP, PCIe, USB, mipi, UFS, I2C, SPI, UART…etc.)

• Familiar with accessory design (i.e. keyboard, docking, pen, power adaptor) is plus.

• Design for manufacturing and test experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment preferred.

• Well-skilled in debug tools such as JTAG, XDP, logic analyzer, UART, spectrum and oscilloscope...etc.

• Strong language skills in English and Mandarin.

• Travel will be required occasionally to the US, China or Vietnam as appropriate to support design, troubleshooting and build activities.

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .